Toronto, ON – The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension fund has announced a loss of more than $3 billion last year, says Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario. “This extends a longer pattern of underperformance at OMERS,” said Hahn. The union, which is the largest member of the plan, is calling for a…
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Today, we remember the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and honour his teachings by weaving the struggle for racial and economic justice into all our work as a union. Our annual commemoration of King’s legacy comes at an important crossroads in history. As it stands the world is gripped by twin pandemics—not only COVID-19,…
For over a decade, our international, interdisciplinary team has been studying long-term care in six different countries, including Canada. Our research clearly indicates that minimum staffing is a necessary but not sufficient condition to keep residents, staff and relatives safe. We urge you to support and implement a minimum standard of four hours a day…
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TORONTO, ON – Ontarians are being urged to join a growing call for profound changes to the province’s long-term care system that would end profit-making in the provision of residential care. Today, SEIU Healthcare, CUPE, and Unifor, unions that represent workers across the long-term care sector, invited families to demand reforms from Premier Doug Ford…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day we remember the victims of the Nazi regime. We resolve to root out anti-Semitism in all its forms. And we renew our promise to weave anti-racism into all the work we do as a union. Over 10 million people, including 6 million Jews, died in the Holocaust. This genocide was the…
Take action to protect your pension Over the last two years, some members of the OMERS Sponsors Corporation (SC) Board have attempted to remove the guaranteed indexing of your pension. So far, CUPE Ontario, allies, and plan members have been able to defeat these attempts. Unfortunately, there is a good chance that this year another…
