Pre-Budget Submission 2020: Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs
Pre-Budget Submission 2020: Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs
CUPE to TDSB: stop using students as bargaining chips in local negotiations
TORONTO – Thousands of young people in Toronto’s public schools are being short-changed because the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is playing games with their education, says the union that represents more than 13,000 support staff at the board. With hundreds of education workers’ jobs going unfilled in the city’s schools, TDSB is depriving students…
Details94 per cent of more than 2000 people on community call oppose hospital addictions treatment bed closure
NORTH BAY, ON – More than 2,000 North Bay residents joined an often “emotional” community town hall call last night to discuss the proposed cut (in July 2020) of a hospital-based addictions treatment program. Ninety-four per cent (94%) on the call said they oppose the closure of the 31-bed unit at the North Bay Regional…
DetailsA message of solidarity from CUPE on Joint Teacher action
On Friday, February 21, four Ontario education unions representing elementary and secondary teachers and education workers will participate in a one-day walkout across the province. And we, all of CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members, which proudly includes the 55,000 members of the Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU), stand in solidarity with them. Nearly 200,000…
DetailsDiverting bodies from Niagara down the QEW for autopsies in Toronto, “makes no sense”
HAMILTON, ON – The union representing staff in pathology at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is calling on the provincial government to reconsider a recent decision to divert pathology cases from Niagara to Toronto, by-passing Hamilton. The move to shuttle forensic autopsies from Niagara to Toronto, is the latest in a series of controversial and questionable…
DetailsStop cuts to autism supports – invest in services families need
TORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario will join the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) and its labour and community allies for a rally at Queen’s Park, starting at 11:30 a.m. on February 18. The OAC and allies are raising concerns about the plans for a new funding arrangement for children with autism that was promised for April…
DetailsMedia Advisory: Stop Cuts to Autism Supports – Invest in Services Families Need
TORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario will join the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) and its labour and community allies for a rally at Queen’s Park, starting at 11:30 a.m. on February 18. The OAC and allies are raising concerns about the plans for a new funding arrangement for children with autism that was promised for April…
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CUPE Ontario stands in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation
CUPE Ontario continues to extend its solidarity to the Wet’suwet’en Nation, echoing the message shared by others across the country and within this province that we must finally take reconciliation seriously. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, together, remind us that we must…
DetailsUnion urges the City to stop misleading the public and to get back to the negotiating table
TORONTO, ON – Instead of misleading the public, the City should come back to the table and negotiate to avoid the path to labour dispute that they’ve started down, says Eddie Mariconda, President of CUPE Local 416. Earlier today a “no-board report,” requested by the City last week, was issued, triggering a countdown to 12:01am…
DetailsCUPE Ontario urges national solidarity with locked-out CUPE 3768 members in Newfoundland and Labrador
Locked out CUPE 3768 members—municipal employees at the Town of Holyrood in Newfoundland—symbolize the struggle municipal workers face across Canada, say CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick. The employees provide snow clearing, water and sewage treatment, and clerical and accounting services. Despite their heroic efforts to keep snow cleared during last month’s…
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