Toronto, ON – Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers remain united in their fight for student success and good jobs. Education workers’ central bargaining committee returned to the table yesterday expecting to see movement that would address the workers’ twin goals of better pay and better services. On Monday, the results of education workers’ historic strike vote…
Derek Hamilton, president of CUPE 5911, and Nicole Runge, vice president of CUPE 5911, two Indigenous leaders of the union that represents paramedics in Kenora District, released the following statement: “We are deeply saddened by the tragic death on the Onigaming First Nations reserve on September 15. Currently, there is a thorough and vital investigation…
Toronto, ON – Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers are united in their fight for student success and good jobs. In an historic strike vote, 45,433 out of 55,000 frontline CUPE education workers cast ballots, and 43,821 – an overwhelming 96.5% – voted “yes” to send a strong message to the Ford government: Education cuts are not…
On September 30 Remember and Reflect on the Truth and Realities of Indigenous History As Canada marks the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, CUPE Ontario’s Indigenous Council is asking CUPE members and locals to learn about the historical and current realities of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people of Canada, participate in…
BRANTFORD, ON – Workers at GrandBridge Energy, Inc., voted yesterday to join the country’s leading union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees. GrandBridge was created by the merger, in April 2022, of Brantford Power, where workers were already members of CUPE Local 181, and Energy+ in Cambridge. “Mergers are always stressful times of uncertainty for…
OTTAWA, ON – Unless Ottawa hospitals hire more than 3000 staff, yearly spiking emergency room wait times at hospitals like The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, unprecedented staffing shortages fueled by resignations, job vacancies, increasing needs, and higher paramedic call volumes will deepen as the population grows and ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees…
This Labour Day, we’re celebrating working people rising to the challenge Every day, working people in Ontario live the reality of the ominous headlines: runaway inflation, wages that can’t keep up, a global pandemic, crisis in health care, and a provincial government that is hell-bent on making life worse for anyone who isn’t one of…
Toronto, ON — Front-line health care workers with CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) joined New Democratic Party (NDP) health critic France Gélinas for an announcement reintroducing a much-needed Bill to protect health care workers who speak out about violence in their workplace. The Bill will be re-tabled by Gelinas in the legislature in…
ST. CATHARINES, ON — After Brock University failed to make a wage offer that adequately reflects the contributions of its facilities management staff, members of Local 1295 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are preparing to begin job action on August 22. The timing could mean a chaotic arrival and move-in for students…
Unions representing 70,000 hospital workers issue open letters to the Ontario Hospital Association and the provincial government for full transparency and staff support to fix the worsening health human resource crisis in Ontario TORONTO, ON – Today, SEIU Healthcare and OCHU/CUPE, unions representing 70,000 hospitals workers across Ontario, issued open letters to hospital executives and…
