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Underfunding, understaffing and better services for residents behind 92% strike vote at CUPE South Riverdale Community Health Centre

Health Care, SolidarityBy Ada Fung October 3, 2024

TORONTO – Health and social workers who are passionate about the outreach services they provide to residents of South Riverdale have sent an unmistakable signal that they are no longer prepared to tolerate the harmful effects of severe underfunding and understaffing at South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC). On Tuesday, members of CUPE 5399, which represents over 120…

Statement for National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

SolidarityBy Mary Unan September 30, 2024

CUPE Ontario and CUPE Ontario’s Indigenous Council are honoured to mark September 30 as National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. In solidarity with Indigenous communities in our province and across the country, we commemorate the day as part of the ongoing reconciliation process. It is a day to pay tribute to the history, courage and…

Time for Mayor and Western to stop abusing police force against workers

SolidarityBy Ada Fung September 19, 2024

LONDON, ON – A strike or lockout is a tense situation at the best of times, and public safety is put at risk when employers and politicians are able to use police as a weapon against workers, says CUPE 2361. Caretaking, landscape service, arena and trades workers at Western University have been on strike since…

United for a decent pension plan: Staff at SickKids rally for same deal as other Ontario hospital workers

OCHU, SolidarityBy Ada Fung September 16, 2024

TORONTO – Staff at SickKids Hospital organized a demonstration today, calling on the employer to join the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). The call comes after workers became aware that their current pension will leave them retiring in poverty because the employer failed to contribute to the plan for decades. SickKids is set to…

Western community rallies at London city hall

Fair Wages, Solidarity, Strike Support, TradesBy Ada Fung September 13, 2024

Western workers, students and community supporters packed the square outside city hall in London, Ontario, today for a rally in support of CUPE 2361 members as they begin the third week of their strike. They were at city hall because London’s mayor, Josh Morgan, is an influential ex officio member of Western University’s Board of…

CUPE members at Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit vote in favour of strike action

Health Care, SolidarityBy Ada Fung September 5, 2024

Members of CUPE Local 1559, representing workers at Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit, have voted in favour of strike action, meaning that if a deal is not reached with the employer soon, public health services that many residents depend on could be disrupted. “We have been in negotiations with our employer since April,…

No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government

Health Care, OCHU, SolidarityBy Ada Fung September 4, 2024

New analysis shows province faces a 13,800 shortfall of hospital beds by 2032 Ontario’s hospital capacity crisis will worsen in the coming years as government funding will fall short of even maintaining current levels of service, according to a new research report produced by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing latest data on…

Labour Day 2024 – CUPE Ontario statement

SolidarityBy Mary Unan September 2, 2024

When we live through historic times, we may not always realize the wider significance of events happening around us. As summer turns to fall, Labour Day is always an opportunity to take stock of the point in history we all occupy, and of the role unions play in building power to help working people succeed.…

A message to CUPE members in Ontario from CUPE Ontario’s Executive Board

SolidarityBy Maryant Perez August 30, 2024

This week CUPE Ontario’s executive board members met for our annual planning retreat. The days we spent together gave us the time and opportunity to address, as a board, the events of the past two weeks. We discussed the actual and potential effects on CUPE members and on CUPE Ontario, and the various steps we…

Picket lines go up on Western University move-in day

SolidarityBy Mary Unan August 30, 2024

LONDON, ON – A strike by caretaking, landscape service and trades workers is likely to disrupt move-in day at Western University, after management broke off contract talks on Wednesday, ahead of a deadline at midnight tonight. “We remain ready to negotiate, but the employer has dug in their heels and left the table. Unless they…

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