Jacques Frémont President and Vice-Chancellor University of Ottawa 550 Cumberland, Room 212 Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 [email protected] October 19, 2020 Dear Jacques Frémont, First and foremost, we hope that you and your family are doing well during these difficult times. We write as representatives of the Ontario Universities and Colleges Coalition (OUCC)—which represents over 435,000…
DetailsTHUNDER BAY, ON – Education workers at Lakehead District School Board are showing their care and concern for students by purchasing 1,500 fabric masks for use by students in schools. “We know our schools and we know our students,” said Rod McGee, president of Local 2486 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). “We…
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Today kicks off the beginning of Ontario Public Library Week. Libraries have brought and continue to bring community together, but this Ontario Public Library Week looks significantly different than past celebrations. The public health crisis we are experiencing has reinforced the need to be connected with one another, and has underscored the importance of strong…
DetailsOn the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members in the public sector take this moment to connect our local struggle with the ones facing so many people around the world. We’re in the middle of an unprecedented global crisis. It’s one that has left over a million dead and 40…
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In simple, chilling language, the personal support worker opens a curtain on what the COVID-19 pandemic has looked like from the front lines of devastated long-term care homes: Bodies of residents piling up, desperate staff shortages, fear. “One after another of the residents started dying. I was scared to come back after a few days…
DetailsCUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members join Muslim communities and allies in expressing outrage over the news that a Toronto mosque was the victim of despicable threats of violence. No one should have to be subjected to the kind of cowardly vitriol these worshippers experienced – least of all Muslims, members of a community that has long faced both systemic and explicitly violent forms…
DetailsTORONTO, ON. – Despite the Ontario government’s promises to deal with the crisis in staffing in long-term care, 94% of the workplace leaders of the 200 long-term care facilities represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) polled this week report that the situation has actually worsened. Ontario had the country’s lowest staff-to-long-term care…
DetailsHAMILTON, ON – Workers at Catholic Family Services (CFS) Hamilton today voted strongly in favour of joining the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The roughly 75 employees include social workers, early childhood educators, counsellors, support workers, cooks, housekeepers, and office, clerical, and maintenance staff. “Workers at CFS Hamilton provide vital services for very vulnerable…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The Ontario New Democratic Party’s (ONDP) plan to deliver a public and non-profit home care and long-term care system is the “comprehensive vision Ontarians need”, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. CUPE Ontario, which represents more than 60,000 health care workers in Long-Term Care, Community Home Care and Hospitals,…
DetailsCUPE Ontario sends its solidarity to Indigenous Land Defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane from Six Nations who are reclaiming land along the Haldimand Tract, south of Caledonia. Six Nations was given the land after their alliance with the British during the American Revolution, but the land was sold to developers, McKenzie Meadows, where they…
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