For over a decade, our international, interdisciplinary team has been studying long-term care in six different countries, including Canada. Our research clearly indicates that minimum staffing is a necessary but not sufficient condition to keep residents, staff and relatives safe. We urge you to support and implement a minimum standard of four hours a day…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The Ontario government’s proposed changes to the Blue Box recycling program will lead to losses of good jobs in municipalities and a lack of public oversight, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. The Ford government’s announced Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) recycling model is touted as one that would result…
DetailsOver the last month, we’ve watched the acts of racist, anti-Indigenous violence in Nova Scotia in horror and with growing concern. We’ve heard the stories and seen the images of Mi’kmaq fishers who’ve been assaulted, threatened, had their traps removed, and have had a vehicle burned down. It’s disgraceful and all of us, everywhere, must…
DetailsToronto, ON—Developmental Services Workers and caregivers of adults with developmental disabilities are shocked and concerned by the abrupt closure of six day program sites by Community Living Guelph Wellington. “The elimination of day programs at Community Living Guelph Wellington is shameful and will leave hundreds of people with developmental disabilities, and their caregivers, stuck at…
DetailsTORONTO – Members of CUPE Local 1281 are launching a social media campaign today, to highlight cuts to student services made by the Ryerson Student Union (RSU), and to urge the restoration of those services. Since May, the RSU has reduced funding support for campus groups, made cuts at the campus print shop, eliminated online…
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October 22, 2020 is the 20th annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. Each year the day is proclaimed by municipalities and school boards across Ontario and marked in hundreds of child care centres. This year’s theme is “Rising Up!” to acknowledge the importance of collective action in creating a just, publicly…
DetailsJacques 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…
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…
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