People with developmental disabilities can not take any more cuts, front-line workers warn Ford Government

Governmental, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – Developmental Services workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), held a press conference at Queen’s Park to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities and the tenth anniversary of Ontario’s transition from institution-based developmental services to a community living model. They warned the Ford government that chronic underfunding and…

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New fast-tracked Bill on private clinics and supply chain exposes the PC’s plan to privatize health services

Health Care

TORONTO, ON – Despite overwhelming evidence that the privatization of clinical and support services in health care has milked taxpayers and exposed patients to infection, poorer outcomes and death, the Ontario government has fast-tracked Bill 138 to facilitate further privatization, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) charged today. Today appearing before the Standing Committee…

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World Aids Day 2019

Pink Triangle, Solidarity

December 1 marks World AIDS Day and the beginning of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week in Canada. Today, we remember the millions of people who have died as a result of AIDS in Canada and around the world. We recommit to action to end the stigma and discrimination still faced by those living with this disease.…

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CUPE education workers stand in solidarity with education worker allies

School Boards, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Ontario stand in solidarity with Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) and the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) members and are outraged that the Ford Conservatives are attempting to divide workers in the education system. Starting on Tuesday, November…

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Janice Folk-Dawson, Chair CUPE Ontario’s University Workers’ Committee elected Executive Vice-President Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)

Solidarity, University

Toronto, ON – CUPE Ontario is thrilled to announce that Janice Folk Dawson, Chair of CUPE Ontario’s University Workers’ Coordinating Committee (OUWCC) has been elected as the Executive Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). Having served on the CUPE Ontario Executive Board for almost two decades, Janice, who is also the President…

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A message of solidarity from OSBCU and CUPE Ontario to ETFO and OSSTF

School Boards

Starting on Tuesday, November 26, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), representing 83,000 teachers and education workers, as well as the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF), representing more than 60,000 members, will begin work-to-rule job action. And we, the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), representing 55,000 CUPE education workers, and all…

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Provincial funding cut to Kingston hospital will climb to $66.9 million by 2023 under Ford Conservatives

Health Care, Solidarity

KINGSTON, ON – Kingston patients’ access to hospital care and services will be further diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will climb to $66.9 million for Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). These cuts will unfold as Kingston’s population is aging and KHSC struggles…

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Kingston patients, hospital face grim future under coming PC funding cuts: CUPE to release projected shortfalls to 2023

Health Care

KINGSTON, ON – Although Kingston’s population is aging and Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), even before the flu season hits fully, is consistently struggling with patient overcrowding, Ontario’s Conservative government is planning multiple years of deep budget cuts to hospitals. “What’s coming will be bigger because the cuts compound,” says Michael Hurley, the president of…

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CUPE Ontario condemns the coup d’état and the repression of protesters in Bolivia

International Solidarity, Solidarity

CUPE Ontario joins CUPE National and the international community in condemning the coup in Bolivia. The military removal of Evo Morales, the crushing of democratic rights in Bolivia and the repression of protesters including the indigenous people, poor and labour activists in the country amount to nothing but a military coup, which is a violation…

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