TORONTO, ON – The workers who run the YWCA Toronto’s homeless shelters often leave work and go to food banks. Many of those who help families find stable housing live with the daily stress of how they’re going to afford their own rent. This simmering crisis of poverty and precarity among YWCA Toronto workers has…
DetailsTORONTO – After filing a surprise no-board on April 29th, after only two days at the table since receiving a mandate to enter negotiations with the union on the 17th, it was clear that the employer was setting up the conditions to force the members of OCEU/CUPE 1750 into a strike. This forced the union…
DetailsTORONTO – After months at the bargaining table, the WSIB files a surprise No-Board on April 29th. This puts the employer in the position to terminate the collective agreement for members of OCEU/CUPE 1750 as early as May 16th if a deal cannot be reached. In response, the union held a strike vote on May…
DetailsFollowing the resignation of Jagmeet Singh as leader of the federal New Democratic Pary, CUPE Ontario pays tribute to his leadership and accomplishments over the past eight years and expresses gratitude for the grace, strength and example he always showed as the first racialized leader of a major party in Canada. Jagmeet is a familiar…
DetailsMay 1 is First Responders Day, a day of recognition and gratitude for the skilled and selfless people who help save lives when emergencies strike. It is the honour of CUPE Ontario and the CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario (CACO) to pay tribute to CUPE paramedics and dispatchers and all frontline first responders, who are…
DetailsA happy May Day to CUPE Ontario members and to all workers marking International Workers’ Day. CUPE Ontario celebrates this day in solidarity with workers around the world. It is an opportunity to feel the power of our shared history of struggle, resilience and victories and to re-commit ourselves to the continuing fight for justice…
DetailsThe 2025 federal election and events leading up to it were unlike any we have seen before. Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre had led the polls for months, even though working people understood fundamentally that their leader was cut from the same cloth as Trump. Then a snap election was called after the Liberals crowned Mark…
DetailsOn this National Day of Mourning, we remember all workers who lost their lives on the job, who were injured or who were made ill by workplace hazards. We honour these fellow workers, not only through our remembrance but also with our commitment to the fight for workplaces that are safe and healthy. No one…
DetailsTORONTO – For any other employer, it would have been an unprecedented move: on the first day of conciliation, on the first day of bargaining, before any negotiations had even been taken place, they called for a No Board. But this is typical behaviour from Julia Dumanian and Canadian Hearing Services (CHS). “Since taking over…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The announcement by Doug Ford’s Conservatives of the expansion of “strong mayor powers” to an additional 169 municipalities is further undermining the fundamentals of democracy in our communities and enables personal political agendas to “trump” democratic process. “This expansion is disguised as a way to speed up housing and infrastructure projects, but make…
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