HAMILTON, ON – A large group of hospital staff including nurses, personal support workers and lab technologists rallied today at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton against the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics. In response to Bill 60, the recently passed legislation that farms out surgeries and diagnostic procedures…
KENORA, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1939 workers’ bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement with the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board on custodians and maintenance workers’ local terms and conditions for the period of September 2022 to August 2026. CUPE education workers voted to ratify their local agreement on June…
NEWMARKET, ON – Over the weekend, workers at Newmarket Public Library voted almost unanimously (93%) in favour of strike action. “Newmarket has the lowest-paid library workers in all of York Region. Most are also part-time and have no benefits,” said Kathryn Richardson, Chair of the Newmarket Public Library Unit of CUPE Local 905. CUPE 905…
TORONTO –The City of Toronto today announced it is marking “School Crossing Guard Appreciation Week.” The announcement comes less than a week after the city’s General Governance Committee voted in favour of changing vendors and laying off roughly 350 school crossing guards. “I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry,” said Myra Chico, president…
TORONTO, ON – In the early morning after hours of marathon bargaining, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1750 / the Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU) reached a tentative agreement with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. “I am proud of my coworkers and the strength of our union, and I’m…
TORONTO, ON – The midnight deadline has come and gone but workers for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board remain at work and the bargaining committee from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1750 / the Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU) is still at the table. “We’re close to an agreement that will…
May 2023 When the Government of Ontario released its staffing plan for the Long-Term Care (LTC) sector in 2020, titled “A better place to live, a better place to work: Ontario’s long-term care staffing plan”, it was billed as a blueprint to help recruit and retain workers while improving the standard of care. But with…
COCHRANE, ON – As contract negotiations with the Town of Cochrane drag on into their fifteenth month, workers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action if the employer doesn’t come to the table with a serious plan to resolve outstanding issues around scheduling, inflation and equality within the bargaining unit, says the Canadian Union of Public…
Toronto, ON – After dozens of underwhelming bargaining sessions and with only five days left before a strike deadline, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1750 / the Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU) are sounding the alarm. Job action, which is set to begin 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, would impact workers…
– Statement from ETT, OPSEU/SEFPO, CUPE Ontario, ATU Canada and USW – TORONTO, ON – As leaders of unions that collectively represent hundreds of thousands of working people across the City of Toronto, we are pleased to announce our joint endorsement of Olivia Chow for the office of the Mayor. We offer this endorsement as…
