TORONTO – Unions representing 8,000 workers at the University of Toronto will be making an important announcement Thursday about negotiations with the university and possible effects on the academic year. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Locals 3902 and 3261 will be involved in the announcement. CUPE 3902 represents academic workers who provide the…
TORONTO – After six months of negotiations with York University without significant progress, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3903 has filed for a “no board,” setting the clock ticking toward a possible strike. Nearly 3,000 contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants have been in negotiations with the university since June 2023.…
OTTAWA, ON – A 50 percent cut in the number of international students, announced today by the federal government, does nothing to deal with the underlying causes of the crisis unfolding in public universities across Ontario. What it will do is increase dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric that is being fanned by right-wing politicians across the country,…
A 50 percent cut in the number of international students, announced today by the federal government, does nothing to deal with the underlying causes of the crisis unfolding in public universities across Ontario. What it will do is increase dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric that is being fanned by right-wing politicians across the country, says the leading…
WATERLOO, ON – Graduate teaching assistants and research assistants at the University of Waterloo officially became the newest members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) today. The group of more than 2,000 workers were officially recognized by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) following a late-December vote that was more than 90 percent…
TORONTO, ON – University Settlement is a charity with a more than hundred-year history of building strong communities in Toronto. But all is not right with their own staff – and in a resounding show of solidarity, workers voted 96 per cent in favour of striking if management refuses to address long simmering issues. 63…
TORONTO – Tuesday’s federal Fall Economic Statement included an important win for university workers that will avoid the kind of devastation seen at Laurentian University in Sudbury last year, says the main union representing university workers in Ontario. “The use of the corporate restructuring process at Laurentian University was devastating for students and staff, Sudbury…
TORONTO, ON – A “blue-ribbon panel” appointed by the Ford government confirmed in its report yesterday what university educators and staff have been saying for years: Ontario’s universities are the worst-funded in Canada. “We didn’t need the government to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a panel to tell us what we already know.…
CUPE Ontario and the Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee (OUWCC) have expressed their shock and dismay at the horrifying and violent act that took place yesterday at the University of Waterloo. On behalf of CUPE members, 30,000 of whom work in Ontario’s universities, CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and OUWCC chair David Simao expressed their…
TORONTO, June 1, 2023 – The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO), Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers Federation (OSSTF/FESSO), Canadian Federation of Students (CFS-Ontario), Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) are deeply concerned about the composition,…
