(NORTH BAY, ON) – Minimum wage food service workers at North Bay’s Nipissing and Canadore College, members of CUPE Local 1165 Unit 7, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike after seeing no movement on the issue of wage parity, said the union. “The contractor, Compass, pays food service workers at both Laurentian University and…
TORONTO – CUPE Ontario has pledged its full support to the coalition of five major health unions, including CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE), as they gear up for a province-wide campaign of resistance to the Ford government’s “three-step plan” for privatizing hospital care services. “Our union will raise its voice on behalf of…
TORONTO – Five major Ontario healthcare unions are calling on the Ford government to not move forward with its plan to siphon provincial funding from public hospital care and hand it to private, for-profit surgical clinics, a risky venture that will cost Ontarians dearly and damage access to public care. The unions – CUPE/OCHU, Ontario…
Each year on the third Monday of January, we collectively honour the achievements and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was a trailblazer in the fight to end racial segregation and who promoted non-violent means to end the era of inequality in the United States and abroad. This year’s celebration will be on…
January 10, 2023 Sault Ste Marie, ON -Members of CUPE 4148 are caretakers, maintenance workers, carpenters, educational assistants (EAs), early childhood educators (ECEs), and clerical staff employed by the Huron Superior Catholic District School Board (HSCDSB). There are very few, if any, other organizations to which workers supply so much personal information as they provide…
SAULT STE MARIE, ON – The workers who dug Sault Ste Marie out of huge Christmas holiday snowstorms have voted to strike, if necessary, to get a wage increase they need to receive for their families to keep up with the skyrocketing cost of living and the city needs to provide to retain and recruit…
Year End Message 2022 Sisters, Brothers, Comrades & Friends What a year 2022 has been! As pandemic restrictions eased, we re-engaged with one another in person and at numerous CUPE Ontario conferences and events, reigniting our participation in community events like Pride celebrations, Carnival, and Labour Day. Our 55,000 school board workers made labour history…
This year, the labour movement lost a giant: Brother Terry O’Connor was a tireless activist and an inspiration to countless union members over the years. He passed away last month in Oshawa and was laid to rest in Powassan, Ontario. Terry was CUPE Ontario’s longest-serving Secretary-Treasurer, spending 16 years as an officer of our union.…
CUPE Ontario has added its voice to the growing chorus of condemnation around the executions in Iran of two young people who were involved with the nationwide protests triggered by the death in custody of Jina Mahsa Amini. CUPE Ontario expressed its profound shock and condemnation at the deaths of Majidreza Rahnavard and Mohsen Shekari,…
Mississauga, ON – On Tuesday, December 6, just weeks before the Christmas holidays, CUPE 66 emergency dispatchers for the City of Mississauga were told they were immediately being laid off, as a private contractor took over their jobs on the same day. “This was completely unexpected after we had received such exemplary reviews in August,”…
