This year is the 51st anniversary of Carnival, which began in Toronto as a gift from the Caribbean community to Canada’s centennial celebrations in 1967. The festival originally took place on Simcoe Day, which marks the end of slavery in Canada on August 1, 1834. Carnival is not only a celebration of Caribbean culture, it also…
TORONTO, ON – On July 20, management at Toronto’s Exhibition Place locked out IATSE Local 58 workers who provide staging, rigging, and technical support for events on exhibition grounds and at other venues across the city. The lockout comes after months of negotiating with an employer seeking to contract out work and cut job security…
Last Friday management at Toronto’s Exhibition Place locked out the technical and staging workers who provide the staging, rigging and technical support for events on the exhibition grounds as well as at BMO Field, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Coca Cola Coliseum (formerly Ricoh), Enercare Centre and the Liberty Grand. The lock out comes after months of…
TORONTO, ON – On the 115th day of the strike at York University, CUPE 3903, which represents contract faculty, teaching assistants, graduate assistants, and part-time librarians and archivists, has sent a letter to University President Rhonda Lenton outlining how the strike could end immediately should Lenton choose to do so. The letter acknowledges the…
Attention all staff, CUPE leaders and activists: The election results on June 7, were not what we wanted and are very concerning for all CUPE members and the public services we provide. With only 40 percent of the vote, Doug Ford and the Conservative Party now have a majority government in Ontario. The race…
TORONTO, ON – With days left until voters decide who will lead Ontario’s next government, analysis of Doug Ford’s election plan finds that promised cuts will lead to up to 163,000 job losses across Ontario. “Doug Ford likes to tell people he knows how to manage the economy, but his reckless tax cut plan guarantees…
TORONTO, ON (Wednesday, May 30, 2018) – More than 1000 CUPE Ontario delegates are coming together from May 30 to June 2, for the union’s annual convention being held at the Toronto Sheraton Center. An election year for the union, delegates will be voting for the positions of President, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-Presidents, Diversity Chairs and Member-at-Large.…
CUPE Ontario is devastated to learn that at least three CUPE members were among the victims of Monday’s horrific vehicular assault near Mel Lastman Square in Toronto. CUPE 4400 member, Renuka Amarasinghe, was killed in the attack. Renuka was a single mother and a Nutrition Services worker who had worked at a number of Toronto…
Earlier, the tranquility of a spring day in North York was disturbed by an incident that claimed the lives of family, neighbours, and friends. North York can count on the labour movement’s support in this difficult moment. We must respond as a community and grieve as a community. We applaud the courage and heroism of…
TORONTO, ON – As a strike by their academic workers continues into its eighth week, York University has wasted yet another opportunity to negotiate a resolution to a dispute that threatens to further damage thousands of students’ current and summer academic terms. For the past week, York and Local 3903 of the Canadian Union of…
