TORONTO – CUPE 416 is encouraged by the City of Toronto’s announcement of a multi-year staffing plan for Toronto Paramedic Services, calling the move a long-overdue step toward addressing critical service and staffing challenges. “We’re encouraged to see the City finally taking steps to address the pressures our paramedics have been facing for years,” said…
TORONTO – Missed medical appointments, missing hearing aids, and all manner of services for Deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Ontarians missing in action: that is the result of a seven week long strike at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS). Now two leading Deaf and hard of hearing advocacy groups are calling attention to the deleterious…
TORONTO – After more than three months of bargaining, members of the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, CUPE 416, who work at Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), have ratified a new collective agreement. “We’re proud of the work our members do every day to support TCHC tenants, and this agreement reflects the value of that work,”…
BROCKVILLE, ON – CUPE education workers across the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) are speaking out after some members received reprimands from the school board for signing a public petition calling on trustees to address chronic understaffing, understaffing and escalating violence in schools. “This is a blatant attempt to intimidate and silence workers who…
Nearly three in four Ontarians want provincial government to prioritize spending on public hospitals instead of private clinics: new poll Cornwall, ON – The privatization of hospital services in Ontario is negatively impacting the vast majority of Cornwall residents, as people with affluence gain increased access to private clinics at the expense of everyone else,…
Today, a Peterborough, Ontario, community group unveiled an open letter signed by more than 100 of the biggest names in Canadian and U.S. arts. The letter, created by Our Future Peterborough, speaks to the importance of librarians and of stopping an extremely unpopular restructuring that will push out some of the city’s most popular librarians.…
MARKHAM, ON – As the strike at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) continues, CUPE’s WSIB Specialists – lawyers and paralegals who represent CUPE members in appeals at the WSIB and Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal – are raising urgent concerns about the growing disruption of critical services that injured workers rely on.…
Vast majority say there isn’t enough staff in public hospitals OTTAWA – Seventy-three per cent of Ontarians believe the government should prioritize spending on public hospitals rather than private clinics, in a poll conducted following the recent budget announcement of $280 million being shunted to private, for-profit clinics. Eighty-four per cent also said they believe…
TORONTO – The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU/CUPE 1750) is sounding the alarm after an internal message sent to Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) staff confirms a growing backlog of injured worker claims, directly contradicting recent public statements from WSIB leadership. “For weeks, the WSIB has publicly denied any backlog, but now we know…
Vast majority say there isn’t enough staff in public hospitals Hamilton, ON – Seventy-eight per cent of people living in Western Ontario believe the government should prioritize spending on public hospitals rather than private clinics, in a poll conducted following the recent budget announcement of $280 million being shunted to private, for-profit clinics. Eighty-five per…
