“Ontario’s school boards are in severe crisis”: Survey of 12,000 CUPE education workers finds extreme underfunding and understaffing has caused widespread violence, burnout and lack of supports for students in Ottawa-area schools

School Boards, Uncategorized

OTTAWA – A recent survey of Ontario education workers including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth workers, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, and school secretaries represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) shows that a severe crisis in underfunding has led to…

Honour RSI Awareness Day by holding Conservatives to account

Injured Workers, Solidarity, Uncategorized

This year, International Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Awareness Day takes place just after the snap Ontario provincial election. CUPE Ontario and the Injured Workers Advocacy Committee are working with allies to hold the Ford Conservatives to account for their failure to protect workers. Deliberate and chronic underfunding of public services by Conservatives, combined with wage…

CUPE Cast

Listen NowCUPE Cast Tiffany Balducci Host Brianna Plummer Host Brittany Nisbett Host CUPE Cast Episode 42 – Provincial Election & Workers' Democracy The new CUPE Cast is here! It’s election season in Ontario! With eligible voters heading to the polls on Thursday, February 27, 2025, the CUPE Cast hosts jump right in to discuss the…

CUPE Ontario’s Statement for the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia

Human RIghts, International Solidarity, Solidarity, Uncategorized

CUPE Ontario stands in solidarity with communities from coast to coast on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia, observed on January 29th. This day serves as a solemn reminder of the tragic events that unfolded in Quebec City in 2017, when a gunman entered a mosque…

CUPE Members working in Home and Community Care Support Services to protest at Ontario Treasury Board to demand a fair deal at the bargaining table!

Health Care, Home Care, Solidarity, Uncategorized

TORONTO – On Wednesday morning, a delegation representing 1,600 CUPE members working in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) were offered an insulting wage increase at the bargaining table by the Ontario Treasury Board and the Ford Government. Over thirty members working in HCCSS travelled from across Ontario to bargain a fair wage reopener…