TORONTO, ON – Since December 14, 1990, when the UN General Assembly proclaimed October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons this has been a key date for older persons across Ontario. In Canada and around the world, demographics are shifting. The rapid increase of older persons within Ontario communities is creating a much…
DetailsHAMILTON, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is calling on the provincial Conservatives to launch an independent review of the decision to close forensic pathology services in the Hamilton/Niagara region. “There are too many troubling allegations surrounding the motivations behind the closure to forge ahead,” says Dave Murphy, president of CUPE 7800…
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Today, more than 55,000 members of CUPE Ontario have begun legal job action to secure the education services students need at school. They are education workers, represented by CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), working in our schools and board offices, in both the French and English systems, for public and Catholic boards,…
DetailsPEEL, ON – Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 966 (CUPE Local 966), representing municipal workers with the Region of Peel, are highlighting their work and their commitment to the community in a new advertising campaign. The transit shelter, bus, billboard and GO Transit ads feature the work of several different types…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The countless hours of services and supports lost to Ontario students because of Ford government cuts are the focus of job action announced today by education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Representatives this morning issued the required five days’ notice that puts them in a legal strike…
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HAMILTON, ON – As education workers at McMaster University began voting today on whether to give their bargaining committee a mandate to take whatever steps they deem necessary to secure a fair collective agreement, support for the members of Unit 1 of Local 3906 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 3906-1) poured in…
DetailsDRYDEN, ON – Patient access to hospital care and services will be greatly diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future real funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will climb to $1.25 million for the Dryden Regional Health Centre. Looking at detailed fiscal information from Ontario’s financial accountability office and the…
DetailsTHUNDER BAY, ON – Patient access to hospital care and services will be greatly diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future real funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will climb to $55.6 million for Thunder Bay area hospitals. Looking at detailed fiscal information from Ontario’s financial accountability office and the…
DetailsSAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Patient access to hospital care and services will be greatly diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future real funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will climb to $26.5 million for Sault Ste. Marie area hospitals. Looking at detailed fiscal information from Ontario’s financial accountability office…
DetailsDRYDEN, ON – Although Dryden’s population is aging, Ontario’s Conservative government is planning multiple years of deep budget cuts to the Dryden Regional Health Centre. “What’s coming will be bigger because the cuts compound,” says Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). Hurley will hold a media conference at 10:00…
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