Union blasts hospital for taking 24-year pension holiday TORONTO – After 36 years of backbreaking labour at SickKids Hospital, patient service aid Leonora Foster has one goal before ending her career: to secure a decent pension plan for herself and her co-workers to escape the clutches of poverty in her sunset years. The staff at…
DetailsTORONTO – Last week, members of the Toronto Civic Employee’s Union, CUPE Local 416, who work at Yorktown Family Services ratified their new collective agreement in a unanimous vote. The outcome speaks as much to the gains in their new deal as it does to the organizing model members relied on. “We entered into bargaining…
DetailsMISSISSAUGA, ON – Tonight, as Carolyn Parrish is sworn in as the new Mayor of Mississauga, CUPE members who work for the city will be in attendance asking for a commitment to a fair deal for city workers who have been bargaining for over a year. CUPE Local 1989, representing City of Mississauga Library workers,…
DetailsThirteen library workers will join CUPE Local 65 FORT FRANCES, ON – On Wednesday library workers at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre voted to join CUPE. “We’re happy,” said Joelle Barron, who works as a part-time library clerk at the library. “This has been a long time coming and we’re excited to start…
DetailsOn June 21, CUPE Ontario and the Indigenous Council mark Indigenous Peoples Day, a time to celebrate the strength, history, and powerful resilience of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people across this Turtle Island. Throughout this month and especially on June 21, we celebrate Indigenous achievements, diversity, and cultures. We recommit our union to deepening…
DetailsHighlands East, ON – CUPE members at the Municipality of Highlands East are closer to a strike after conciliation talks failed to reach an agreement. Local 4416 filed a request for a “no board” report, which could put the workers in a legal strike position by early July. CUPE 4416 represents 30 members at the…
DetailsCUPE Ontario Statement There are 45,000 developmental service workers in our province and over 12,000 of them are proud members of CUPE Ontario. These workers are highly skilled. They are personal chefs one minute, therapists the next. They coach people through crises, attend to medical needs, and help them with their finances. They provide whatever…
DetailsWindsor, ON – The members of CUPE Local 2067.01, representing seventy library workers at the Windsor Public Library, will be in a legal strike position as of midnight, June 30th, 2024. In March, CUPE Local 2067.01 members voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate, with 96% of the 75% of participating members supporting the…
DetailsTORONTO – Campus safety workers at York University will be holding a press conference on Friday, June 14 at 1 p.m. at Calumet Circle on campus. Members of the union local will be speaking at the press conference as well as CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and Ontario Federation of Labour President Laura Walton. This…
DetailsTORONTO – Prevention is better than cure and community-based mental health supports are meant to help before families break down. Workers at Yorktown Family Services – members of the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union, CUPE Local 416 voted unanimously in favour of a strike vote yesterday. This vote by workers at Yorktown Family Services reveals a…
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