PETERBOROUGH, ON – Part-time academic workers at Trent University, members of Unit 1, Local 3908 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 3908-1) have this week voted overwhelmingly to give their bargaining committee a strong mandate to take whatever action they feel is needed to achieve a fair agreement. This mandate includes strike action…
DetailsTORONTO – Refusal by the Minister of Education and the Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) to honour a key part of the deal they negotiated with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is robbing students of much-needed services and keeping hundreds of workers from returning to the jobs they love, said the union. CUPE,…
DetailsOn Holocaust Remembrance Day we remember the victims of the Nazi regime. We resolve to root out anti-Semitism in all its forms. And we renew our promise to weave anti-racism into all the work we do as a union. Over 10 million people, including 6 million Jews, died in the Holocaust. This genocide was the…
DetailsTORONTO – In October, the Ontario School Board Council of Unions negotiated, on behalf of 55,000 CUPE education workers, a central collective agreement with the Council of Trustees’ Associations and the Province of Ontario. A major element of the contract was $78 million in annual funding to restore services for students and return 1300 CUPE…
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Take action to protect your pension Over the last two years, some members of the OMERS Sponsors Corporation (SC) Board have attempted to remove the guaranteed indexing of your pension. So far, CUPE Ontario, allies, and plan members have been able to defeat these attempts. Unfortunately, there is a good chance that this year another…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Ontario’s overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded hospitals are already challenged under the strain of a growing and aging population and as a result they are “severely disadvantaged at times of viral global outbreaks, like the Coronavirus now spread to North America from China,” says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of…
DetailsSUDBURY, ON – As bargaining resumed today, the President of the Union representing 140 Laurentian University food service workers, members of Unit 5, Local 895 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 895-05) had a message for the multinational corporation that holds the contract to feed students, faculty and staff on campus. “It’s time…
DetailsBELLEVILLE, ON – CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn will be available to media on Wednesday, January 22nd at 12:45pm prior to his presentation to Pre-Budget Committee. Fred Hahn’s presentation will call on the province to reverse the cuts to services across the province in the upcoming budget and to reinvest in communities. The presentation will…
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