Legislation expanding private surgeries and procedures will harm Ontario patients, cost more, bleed staff away from public hospitals and leave them with the most complex cases: CUPE

Governmental, Health Care, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – Ontario PC government legislation tabled today that will expand private and for-profit surgeries and procedures isn’t smart spending but costly policy that will increase costs, waits and death rates, lower patient outcomes and bleed scarce staff from public hospitals, says Michael Hurley president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.  “Throwing huge…

“We’re ready to strike because we deserve better wages now”: Markham Public Library workers approach a February 10 strike date

Solidarity

(Markham, ON) – Markham Public Library workers, members of CUPE Local 905, are preparing to walk off the job on February 10th. The 163 librarians, library services associates, digital library specialists, and borrow services staff at Markham Public Library overwhelmingly voted against a proposed deal from the City of Markham, primarily due to insufficient wages…

CUPE Ontario Statement for the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia on January 29

Solidarity

January 29 represents a tragic and shocking day in Canadian history. On this day in 2017, there was a senseless attack on Muslim men at prayer in the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City: a gunman, driven by the hate-filled messages of Islamophobia and white supremacy, killed six people and inflicted serious injury on many…

CUPE Ontario’s Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2023

Solidarity

On January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, CUPE Ontario observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day was designated by the United Nations to honour the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, victims of anti-Semitism, racism, and totalitarianism. Millions of others, including Ukrainians, Poles, Roma, people with…

OPEN LETTER RE: Ontario’s Health System at Risk

Health Care, Solidarity

                                                 The Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau                                                                                January 24, 2023 The Honourable Chrystia Freeland House of Commons, Canada OPEN LETTER RE: Ontario’s Health System at Risk  Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime…

“We do the same work – why aren’t we being paid the same”: Food service workers at Nipissing and Canadore College overwhelmingly vote in favour of a strike

Social Services, Solidarity

(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…