Click here to send the online mailer right now – stop these cuts in Peterborough PETERBOROUGH, ON – CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn, CUPE Local 126 President, Trish Bucholtz, workers, concerned parents and community members will rally against the attempted closure of two municipally operated child care centres and two before and after school programs.…
DetailsPETERBOROUGH, ON – The City of Peterborough’s plan to close its child care centres is a move that targets children, families and eliminates good jobs that are predominantly held by women according to Trish Bucholz, a front-line child care worker and president of Local 126 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents child…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The following statement was issued by Laura Walton, president of the Ontario School Board Council of Unions, the designated bargaining agent charged with negotiating a central collective agreement on behalf of 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Today the CUPE/OSBCU bargaining team met with the Council…
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TORONTO, ON – The following statement was issued by Laura Walton, president of the Ontario School Board Council of Unions, the designated bargaining agent charged with negotiating a central collective agreement on behalf of 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Today the CUPE/OSBCU bargaining team met with the…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario, will hold a press conference on Monday, September 9th at Queen’s Park to launch a province wide community based & multi sector campaign to stop the Ford Conservative Government Cuts. This community focused campaign will provide support to local activists in communities across the province to…
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Dear CUPE Ontario members, Without Ontario’s labour movement, many of the advances our province has made toward becoming a more prosperous and fair society would not have happened. This Labour Day, we remember with gratitude the work of generations of trade unionists to advance the rights, working conditions and public services we enjoy today. But…
DetailsOSHAWA, ON – When it comes to hospital funding, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government is “worse than Mike Harris” new data reports released in Oshawa today by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OHCU) show. For Doug Ford’s government to keep its proposed budget plan for the next five years, “it is now apparent…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – At the start of the new school year, education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will appear at a news conference to provide details of “the new normal” for students, families and schools in Doug Ford’s Ontario. Workers who deliver a variety of education services in schools will…
DetailsSTRATFORD, ON – When it comes to hospital funding, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative (PC) government is “worse than Mike Harris” new data reports released in Stratford today by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OHCU) show. For Doug Ford’s government to keep its proposed budget plan for the next five years, “it is now apparent…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The union that represents education workers at Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is charging the board with hiding the real numbers of the budget cuts that TDSB has made to programs and services and with under-reporting the true impact the cuts will have on programs, special education in classrooms, students, parents and…
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