Ford government’s cuts to GSN funding signal drastic drop in services for students and job losses for education workers

TORONTO, ON – The union that represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario schools is calling today’s release of the 2019-20 Grants for Student Needs (GSNs) by the Ministry of Education “an attack on students, on public education and on the people who provide services to students.” It also projects a minimum loss of 2500 positions…

Earth Day 2019

On Earth Day 2019, it is more important than ever that CUPE Ontario join with other unions, communities, businesses and governments to support strong efforts to address the devastating effects of human-caused climate change. This year, the people of Ontario are facing a climate change crisis on two fronts. The details of the first crisis…

Cuts to overdose prevention fuel worst health emergency in a generation

TORONTO – Today, CUPE Ontario is standing in solidarity with hundreds of concerned Torontonians in mourning the thousands of deaths due to overdose caused by government inaction, and sounding the alarm that overdose deaths will increase after the Ford Conservatives cancelled funding for three currently-operating, and two proposed Overdose Prevention Sites (OPS) across the province. “It…

Doug Ford’s assault against the little guy to continue with move to lower public sector wages

TORONTO, ON – Ontario Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy today signaled that the assault against the little guy that began with the cancelations of social assistance and minimum wage hikes, will now shift to reducing the incomes of hundreds of thousands of hard working people delivering public services like healthcare, education, childcare and long-term care…

Bloodied, broken and burned out: 88% of long-term care staff experience violence

TORONTO, ON –Two new reports are being released concurrently that expose the high level of violence, abuse and harassment against staff employed in Ontario’s long-term care homes. An in-depth, peer-reviewed investigative study on violence against staff in Ontario long-term care homes has just been published. The study, titled “Breaking Point: Violence Against Long-term Care Staff,”…

Ontario long-term care staff at “breaking point;” new study and poll on workplace violence released Tuesday at Queen’s Park

TORONTO, ON – Two new reports that expose the high level of violence, abuse and harassment against staff working at Ontario long-term care homes, are being released at a Queen’s Park media conference on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. The study titled, “Breaking Point: Violence Against Long-term Care Staff,” is a just-published, in-depth…

CUPE Ontario calls recent ‘Kryptonite’ comments by Premier Ford an insult to parents and children living with Autism

TORONTO, ON – Doug Ford is No superhero, and Ontario families who have been struggling for years to get appropriate treatment for their children living with autism are certainly not some imaginary rock. Today’s comments by Premier Doug Ford, comparing children with autism to the fictional, strength-sapping kryptonite in the Superman comics, shows Ontario’s PC…