(le français suit) Congratulations to CUPE Ontario’s School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) for negotiating a tentative collective agreement. For a week, 55,000 CUPE education workers have been taking job action to secure a fair agreement that ensures services for students and treats workers with respect. They have been holding firm, demanding an end to…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will resume bargaining today with the Council of Trustees’ Association and the Government of Ontario, on behalf of 55,000 education workers. Ongoing talks are aimed at ending the work-to-rule job action that will escalate to full strike on Monday, October 7th, if no deal can…
DetailsCOBOURG, ON – A report released today in Cobourg shows that hospitals in Northumberland could lose (in today’s terms) 12 beds and 97 staff under the provincial Conservatives’ fiscal plan. Patients, too, are losing out as across the province, emergency room wait times have increased 13.2 per cent since Doug Ford’s government was elected just…
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TORONTO, ON – In the face of mounting evidence that school boards are using education workers’ work-to-rule job action as an excuse to cut programs, services and staffing in Ontario schools, the union that represents these workers gave the required five days’ notice for escalating their job action to a full-fledged walkout that is scheduled…
DetailsOn behalf of 55,000 education workers who began working to rule on Monday, September 30, representatives from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will update members of the media on their ongoing job action. Who: Laura Walton, President of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), Darcie McEathron, CUPE School Boards Coordinator, Fred Hahn, President,…
DetailsCOBOURG, ON – Already struggling with increasing hallway health care and the flu season in the offing, how will Northumberland’s hospitals fare under the strain of billions of dollars more in provincial cuts the Conservatives have signaled making in health care? At a media conference Wednesday, October 2, 2019 (10:00 a.m.) at the Columbus Community…
DetailsGRAVENHURST, ON – Area long-term care staff, who have for many years openly advocated for increased care levels for residents, are taking the rare step of going public with a workplace-related issue that affects them directly – their own outstanding pay. The 160 front-line staff at Sienna Senior Living in Gravenhurst are owed almost two…
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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,…
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