As part of ongoing efforts to bargain better outcomes for patient care and hospital staff, health care unions launch television ads aimed at the OHA

Health Care, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – Three unions negotiating with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) to resolve the ongoing hospital staffing crisis, job safety concerns and pandemic-related mental health supports, today launched a province-wide television advertising blitz to fix the mess and save hospital care in Ontario. CUPE, SEIU Healthcare, and Unifor, representing 95,000 registered practical nurses, personal…

Ontario at the bottom of the pack for spending on services since 2011: CUPE Ontario

Governmental, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – When Ontario should be making historic investments in our public services, reports show that it’s actually spent less per person than any other province in 2020, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. “We were undeniably unprepared for this unprecedented health crisis because governments, culminating in the Ford Conservatives, failed…

Ontario child care advocates celebrate hard-won victory with signing Canada-Ontario child care agreement; call for stronger child care workforce strategy

Child Care, Social Services, Solidarity

Toronto, ON— Ontario child care advocates are celebrating the signing of the Canada-Ontario child care agreement, but are also warning that child care expansion will fail without addressing the sector’s plummeting staff retention and growing worker shortage. “Today is a huge step forward, but we must learn from the mistakes of our past and correct…

“The Struggle Continues:” CUPE Ontario Statement on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Racial Justice, Solidarity

On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, police opened fire on a crowd of Black demonstrators who had taken to the streets to protest racial segregation in apartheid South Africa. The police murdered 69 peaceful demonstrators and injured 180 others, including some 50 women and children. This atrocity became widely known…

On International Women’s Day, hospital staff call out Ontario’s government for failing and devaluing them and cutting their real wages through Bill 124

COVID-19, Governmental, Health Care, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – Today (March 8, International Women’s Day) we collectively acknowledge the contribution women make to better Ontarians’ lives. “While we celebrate women’s efforts from all walks of life, it’s imperative that we call out our provincial government for pushing wage and workplace policies that hurt economic equality and the health – both physical…