TORONTO, ON – Following the City of Toronto’s announcement on contingency plans for a possible labour disruption, CUPE Local 416 offered their own plan, one that respects all parties: negotiate a fair contract and avoid a labour dispute. “How does the City Manager stand up there and say the City respects its workers and looks…
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TORONTO – Thousands of young people in Toronto’s public schools are being short-changed because the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is playing games with their education, says the union that represents more than 13,000 support staff at the board. With hundreds of education workers’ jobs going unfilled in the city’s schools, TDSB is depriving students…
DetailsNORTH BAY, ON – More than 2,000 North Bay residents joined an often “emotional” community town hall call last night to discuss the proposed cut (in July 2020) of a hospital-based addictions treatment program. Ninety-four per cent (94%) on the call said they oppose the closure of the 31-bed unit at the North Bay Regional…
DetailsOn Friday, February 21, four Ontario education unions representing elementary and secondary teachers and education workers will participate in a one-day walkout across the province. And we, all of CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members, which proudly includes the 55,000 members of the Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU), stand in solidarity with them. Nearly 200,000…
DetailsHAMILTON, ON – The union representing staff in pathology at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is calling on the provincial government to reconsider a recent decision to divert pathology cases from Niagara to Toronto, by-passing Hamilton. The move to shuttle forensic autopsies from Niagara to Toronto, is the latest in a series of controversial and questionable…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario will join the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) and its labour and community allies for a rally at Queen’s Park, starting at 11:30 a.m. on February 18. The OAC and allies are raising concerns about the plans for a new funding arrangement for children with autism that was promised for April…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario will join the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) and its labour and community allies for a rally at Queen’s Park, starting at 11:30 a.m. on February 18. The OAC and allies are raising concerns about the plans for a new funding arrangement for children with autism that was promised for April…
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CUPE Ontario continues to extend its solidarity to the Wet’suwet’en Nation, echoing the message shared by others across the country and within this province that we must finally take reconciliation seriously. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, together, remind us that we must…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Instead of misleading the public, the City should come back to the table and negotiate to avoid the path to labour dispute that they’ve started down, says Eddie Mariconda, President of CUPE Local 416. Earlier today a “no-board report,” requested by the City last week, was issued, triggering a countdown to 12:01am…
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