After more than five weeks of doing nothing to help resolve the strike at Ontario’s colleges, the Liberals now have the audacity to try to blame the NDP for preventing students from getting back to class. “I’ve never heard such an outrageous bunch of hooey in my life,” says CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. “The…
Monday, November 20th, we mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance by celebrating how far we’ve come in the fight for trans rights. While transgender people still face significant discrimination, we are also witnessing unprecedented signs of acceptance. Just weeks ago, the small catholic town of Très-Saint-Redempteur in Quebec elected Julie Lemieux as Canada’s first openly…
CUPE Ontario stands strongly in solidarity with the contract faculty at Ontario’s colleges who are represented by OPSEU. These workers are teaching the skills our young people need to succeed in the world. Their work matters to the future of this province. Currently, 81 percent of courses in Ontario’s colleges are taught by contract faculty.…
TORONTO, ON – Thousands of CUPE members from coast to coast to coast voted to strengthen their bargaining power by changing CUPE’s strike pay to begin on the first day of a strike or lockout. “This historic change goes hand in hand with our members’ clear decision to put their employers on notice; in…
CUPE Ontario stands in solidarity with striking workers at Laurentian University. The 367 full-time teachers and 200 sessional staff who are represented by the Laurentian University Faculty Association (LUFA) went on strike late yesterday. LUFA has been working tirelessly to negotiate a fair collective agreement that supports its members and offers high-quality education for students…
Loss of vital agency in four NW Toronto neighbourhoods prompts public meeting to save services and strengthen community agencies everywhere TORONTO, ON – Following the closure of a well-known community agency serving four northwest Toronto neighbourhoods, more than 100 concerned residents, activists and labour unions last night called on the Wynne government to ‘get the…
Labour Day is a time for all of us to reflect on how working people and our communities are doing. To think about the challenges we face, the battles we’ve fought, and the victories we have won together. We’ve come through more than a decade of austerity that has resulted in job cuts, frozen wages,…
Hate crawled up from the sewers of Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday and flooded the streets with thousands of white men baring torches and chanting unbelievable hatred. Many thought we were past such horrors, that the days of torches and pitch forks held high by angry white men screaming hate were gone for good. We might…
TORONTO – In a statement issued on behalf of 260,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario, sent a strong message of support to the workers at Northstar Aerospace, who are fighting to defend their pensions. Hahn also urged CUPE members to head to Unifor’s picket lines…
(TORONTO, ON) – The Ontario Federation of Labour welcomes the proposal for amendments to Bill 148 announced today by the Ontario New Democratic Party. “If enacted, these amendments would strengthen the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act and deliver greater fairness to workplaces across the province,” said Ontario Federation of Labour President Chris Buckley. “There’s no…
