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…
DetailsKINGSTON, 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…
DetailsKINGSTON, 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 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…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Almost 90 per cent of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Operations Supervisors voted Thursday on joining Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), but their ballots have not yet been counted because of a technical objection raised by their employer. “The Operations Supervisors in TTC Transit Control came out…
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TORONTO – A court ruling, striking down efforts by the Ford Conservative government to choke off democratically-approved funding for hundreds of Ontario campus organizations, represents a dramatic victory for students and workers at Universities across the province, the leader of Ontario’s largest union said today. “We were thrilled to learn that the Courts have quashed…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will appear at a Toronto Catholic District School Board meeting to oppose the renewal of the existing Long Term Disability (LTD) Benefit Plan which would increase premiums for members in favour of a plan which would reduce them. WHO: Presidents of…
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TORONTO – The Ford Conservatives are putting children and families at risk by cutting funding to Children’s Aid Societies and asking frontline workers to do more with less, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Child welfare workers, represented by CUPE, were at Queen’s Park today to mark November 20, the National Day…
DetailsHAMILTON, ON – Negotiators for Unit 1, Local 3906 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 3906-1) today have reached a tentative agreement with McMaster University. The tentative agreement follows two days of bargaining between the parties, assisted by a Provincially-appointed mediator. “We look forward to bringing this agreement before our members so they…
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