At the 13 minute mark, CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick describes the systemic flaws in long-term care we’ve been pointing out for years—where peoples’ lives are undervalued and devalued, facilities are chronically underfunded and understaffed, and the entire system has been set up to fail. Listen to the interview here.
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CUPE Ontario’s Secretary Treasurer, Candace Rennick was on Ottawa at Work with Leslie Roberts to speak about the Long Term Care crisis in Ontario. Click here and scroll to 42:25 to hear the interview.
Candace Rennick, Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario and a former personal support worker, said front-line workers had also been raising similar issues for years and getting ignored. “Nothing in that report is going to be any surprise for those of us working on the front lines,” Rennick said. “(I guess) it takes the military to get…
DetailsTHUNDER BAY AND KENORA – ON – From high death rates in long-term care homes, concerning levels of health care worker infections and low COVID-19 testing, more than 2000 people in Thunder Bay and Kenora polled, say the provincial government is underperforming in how it is dealing with the pandemic response. While northwestern Ontario has…
DetailsSUDBURY and NORTH BAY – ON – From high death rates in long-term care homes, concerning levels of health care worker infections and low COVID-19 testing, more than 2200 Sudbury and North Bay residents polled, say the provincial government is underperforming in how it is dealing with the pandemic response. While northeastern Ontario has not…
DetailsNew report says Ontario’s child care centres need a safe, supported reopening that protects children, families, educators and programs. Two major child care organizations affiliated with CUPE are urgently calling on the Ford government to ensure a safe reopening of child care centres across the province as Ontario approaches Stage two of it’s economic recovery…
Details(TORONTO, ON) The Province of Ontario must immediately ramp up testing and contact tracing to ensure safety and create jobs, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. Today, Ontario reported the third straight day of increasing daily cases of COVID-19 and the fifth straight day of falling short of its daily testing goal of 16,000.…
Details(TORONTO, ON) – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario and the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) have joined forces in a first-ever joint letter to the Premier and the Minister of Municipal Affairs seeking urgent financial help for struggling municipal governments. The President of CUPE Ontario, which represents 80,000 municipal employees, Fred…
DetailsWhile CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members have always known how important paid sick leave is, this crisis has made that clearer than ever. On Thursday, May 21, our union is therefore proud to participate in a Day of Action, along with Fight for $15 and Fairness and the Ontario Federation of Labour, calling for paid sick…
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CUPE registered practical nurses Pam Parks, Judy Bain, and Maggie Jewell lay out what health care workers need in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis: There are painted rocks, flower bouquets and handmade signs outside our hospitals and long-term-care homes. These are welcome offerings. The thanks to health-care workers inside touch us deeply. It all…
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