Workers ask the Premier to base public policy on evidence and continue saving lives Every Ontarian deserves low-barrier access to mental health and addictions services in their community. These services must include life-saving harm reduction spaces that are well-funded and professionally administered and allow for the safe consumption and treatment in places across the province…
TORONTO – The Premier’s recent comments in the media shows “a callous attitude” towards the hospital crisis, where overcrowding has increased by 30 percent since 2018, said Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), referring to Doug Ford’s gaffe about overflow patients having the option of receiving treatment at a new…
Parents sigh a deep breath of relief as members of CUPE 2132 ratify tentative agreement with YMCA Academy TORONTO – Just weeks before the school year begins, members of CUPE 2132 voted in favour of their first collective agreement with their employer, YMCA Academy. CUPE 2132, which represents 23 teaching and non-teaching staff at…
SIMCOE COUNTY, ON – Members of CUPE Local 5820 who work for the County of Simcoe could be on strike by next week, leading to an interruption of certain county services if the employer fails to negotiate a fair deal. “This is about fairness for our members,” said Wendy Monsinger, president of CUPE Local 5820.…
TORONTO – A new peer-reviewed study released today in Toronto warns that Ontario’s hospital workers, most of whom are women and many racialized, are in deep turmoil as they labour through an intensifying staffing crisis that is harming their well-being and compromising patient care. Running on Empty, published in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental…
PETERBOROUGH, ON – For years, young people languishing on waitlists have known that all is not right at Kinark Child and Family Services; workers, too, have felt the burden of growing caseloads and shrinking resources. Now, with a resounding strike vote, everyone who cares about the well-being of children and families in Peterborough and Northumberland…
TORONTO, ON – In response to growing pressure, Premier Doug Ford has announced that his government will conduct yet another audit of Ontario’s Child Welfare System. Their previous audit, which cost taxpayers millions, was only four years ago. “My head is spinning,” says CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. “It’s clear that what is missing from…
LONDON, ON – Western University students may find picket lines on move-in day, after negotiations between the institution and its caretaking, landscape services and trades workers were unable to reach an agreement. Following a frustrating day of negotiations aided by a ministry-appointed conciliation officer, the workers, represented by CUPE Local 2361, filed for a “no…
Details of the tentative agreement will be released following a ratification vote. BETHESDA, ON – CUPE 2977 is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement with the employer, Bethesda Community Services, has been reached. The local represents more than 200 workers employed as Developmental Support Workers, Recreation, Maintenance and Cleaning staff at the Fly Road…
Emancipation Day, observed on August 1, commemorates the day in 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act,1833 came into effect. The law liberated enslaved people in the British colonies, including Canada. And yet it was only in 2021 that Canadian parliament designated August 1 National Emancipation Day. The abolition of enslavement did not end the struggle…
