January 19th is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. CUPE Ontario honours Martin Luther King Jr. as both a civil rights icon and a labour activist who saw racial and economic justice as inseparable. Dr King was assassinated in Memphis after walking a picket line with striking sanitation workers. He challenged poverty, racism, and the oppressive systems that…
DetailsONTARIO – The more than 300,000 members of CUPE Ontario are proud to add our voices to the growing condemnation of the unlawful actions stemming from the United States’ escalating aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We join our national union, the Canadian and international labour movement, and many others in denouncing this grave…
DetailsOntario – Hybrid works. Since before the pandemic, workers at Ontario Health atHome have been working remotely to help deliver the essential home-care services Ontarians need. Now, on the whims of the Ford government, these workers are being forced back into office spaces that are not equipped to handle them all at once. Available office spaces have…
DetailsCelebration, rest and resistance As 2025 draws to a close, we at CUPE Ontario extend our deep gratitude and enduring solidarity to all 310,000 CUPE members throughout the province. As we end another year, let’s remind ourselves of the power of our collective resistance. We can be proud of our union, our members and the…
DetailsTORONTO – CUPE Local 2316 is sounding the alarm after notifying the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto that severe staffing shortages, service cuts, unmanageable workloads and years of government underfunding have pushed the child welfare system to a breaking point, putting children, youth and families at risk. In a letter sent to the employer, the…
DetailsPETERBOROUGH, ON – Residents and workers at Sherbrooke Heights are celebrating today after the tentative agreement CUPE 5129 reached with the employer was ratified last night in a unanimous vote. Members of the union had been seeking a fair offer on wages, which were some of the lowest in the sector. “This new collective agreement…
DetailsEssex, ON – Workers at the Extendicare-run Iler Lodge are sounding the alarm after months of issues with the new payroll system has left some dreading the holidays. The roughly 140 members of CUPE local 1370 have filed three grievances and have been trying to work with management to resolve issues caused by a new…
DetailsIn Ontario, we think of ourselves as spectators to the anti-democratic outrages perpetrated by US President Trump. But we have our own ringside seat to authoritarianism right here in Ontario, except we are not just spectators in our own province. We are workers and community members and we are watching Doug Ford take a hammer…
DetailsSt. Thomas, ON – On Thursday, CUPE education workers visited the constituency office of PC MPP Rob Flack to deliver a powerful and disturbing booklet: dozens of photos documenting real injuries sustained by Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, and other frontline education workers while supporting students in local classrooms. The message to the provincial government…
DetailsIn commemoration of the adoption of the UN’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, CUPE Ontario is proud to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10. The original UDHR was the work of two years of discussion, debate, scholarship and diplomacy following the end of the Second World War,…
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