Black History Month Statement
Every February, CUPE Ontario urges all its members to acknowledge and celebrate Black History Month. We also invite our members to reflect on the many contributions Black people of African and Caribbean heritage have made to Canada and our union movement. Black workers have a long history of building the Canadian labour movement and fighting…
Trent food service workers and employer Compass reach tentative agreement
PETERBOROUGH, ON – A tentative settlement on a new collective agreement for Trent food service workers was reached last night between negotiating teams for Local 3205 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and Compass Group Canada Ltd., which operates as Chartwells at Trent University. The new agreement will come into effect pending ratification.…
Commemorating the Quebec Mosque Massacre and Calling for Action
We come together today to remember and mourn the senseless loss of six Muslim men, killed on Jan 29, 2017, while in prayer, at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec (CCIQ). Last year’s deadly shooting at the Quebec City Mosque is a violent example of Islamophobia in Canada. These men were fathers, friends, husbands, sons,…
Thank you, Cheri Di Novo, for your commitment to equality and social justice, and your tireless representation of all working people.
December 14, 2017, marks Parkdale High Park NDP MPP Cheri Di Novo’s last day in the Ontario Legislature. The activist MPP is set to resign her seat and return to her first calling as a United Church Minister. Cheri has been a good friend to CUPE Ontario members and leaves gigantic shoes to fill.…
New study reveals toxic environment of physical and sexual violence against staff in Ontario hospitals
Kitchener, ON – Sexual assaults, a life-altering concussion, shattered faces, fractured bones, lost teeth, bites and brain injury. These are just some of the injuries sustained at the hands of patients by Ontario health care staff who participated in a major new study ‘Assaulted and Unheard: Violence Against Healthcare Staff.’ Featured in ‘NEW SOLUTIONS: A…
North Bay hospital staff report staggeringly high workplace violence rates: Poll
NORTH BAY, ON — A poll of North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) staff conducted earlier this week shows “staggeringly high rates of workplace violence with virtually no resolve from the hospital,” said Michael Hurley president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) that commissioned the poll. What’s more said Hurley at a media conference to release the poll…
150 Kingston hospital staff push for better hospital funding at large Ottawa rally Friday
KINGSTON, ON – More than 150 hospital staff from Kingston Health Sciences Centre KHSC), represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 1974) will board several buses early Friday (October 27, 2017) morning and head to Ottawa. There, they will join hundreds of other hospital workers from across Ontario, for a noon rally at…
16 environmental, health and labour groups raise serious concerns with Bill 154 in open letter to Premier
October 23, 2017 The Hon. Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Via email : [email protected] Dear Premier Wynne: Re: Bill 154, An Act to cut unnecessary red tape by enacting one new Act and making various amendments and repeals We are writing to you to express our profound…
