TORONTO, ON – Workers at Grassriots, a Toronto-based fundraising, advocacy and digital marketing agency, are now officially members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Friday’s Ontario Labour Relations Board decision follows a strong vote to unionize with CUPE. “We are excited to join CUPE and look forward to bargaining a collective agreement that…
TORONTO, ON – The central bargaining committee for 55,000 frontline education workers who are members of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) has reached a tentative agreement with the provincial government and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA). “The tentative agreement includes a flat-rate wage increase, instead of a percentage,” said CUPE-OSBCU president…
Trans Day of Remembrance 2022 CUPE Ontario statement CUPE Ontario marks Trans Day of Remembrance on Sunday, November 20, to honour the history of transgender people, the struggles they have faced and continue to live though, and to recommit as a union to the fight for the rights of trans people across the province. On…
(TORONTO, ON) A strike has been averted and 700 full time and part time front-line service workers have made important gains in a tentative agreement, says CUPE 3261. “I’m so proud of the members for the powerful example of workplace organizing,” said Allan James, President of CUPE 3261. “Thanks to their historic organizing, we sent…
Toronto, ON – After getting an imposed contract that would have further harmed Ontario schools off their backs with the repeal of Bill 28, Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike. CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) central bargaining committee, negotiating for 55,000 frontline education workers,…
TORONTO, ON – The following is a statement from Laura Walton, educational assistant and president of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions: “This afternoon, Ontario’s education workers have their rights back. With the shadow of Bill 28 lifted, education workers can now focus on achieving a fairly negotiated collective agreement that meets the needs…
TORONTO, ON – “Good riddance” was CUPE Ontario’s departing comment on the repeal of Bill 28, the anti-worker legislation introduced less than two weeks ago by the Ford government and rescinded following a historic pushback by education and their allies. “This attack on workers’ rights, delivered under the guise of legislation, has been consigned to…
This is a historic day, friends. The Ford Conservatives have announced they would Repeal Bill 28 and get back to the bargaining table because of our coordinated, impassioned, and powerful pressure. 55,000 education workers – with the unwavering support of the rest of CUPE Ontario, the entire Canadian labour movement, and allies from every community…
Every single one of us knows the moment we’re in, all too well. The cost of living is skyrocketing and our wages simply aren’t keeping up. We know it because it’s splashed on the front pages of every major newspaper. Because more and more workers are visiting food banks. Because our neighbours can’t pay rent.…
TORONTO, ON – The central bargaining committee for Ontario’s lowest-paid frontline education workers will enter into mediation with the Ontario government and Council of Trustees’ Association (CTA) on October 17. Respected mediator William Kaplan, who helped this group of workers and the Ford government reach a settlement in 2019, will assist the parties as they…
