TORONTO, ON – Despite Premier Doug Ford’s repeated promise that, under his government, no public sector workers would lose their jobs, dozens of clerical staff at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital have just been terminated. “It does beg questions about the collateral damage of the Ford PC health system restructuring on patient care and staffing levels.…
DetailsOn May 1, CUPE Ontario joins with its friends, allies and workers around the world to honour the fight for an eight‑hour workday, and to call for decent work, dignity and respect. We are proud to recognize International Workers’ Day, or May Day, at a time when the province of Ontario has not only turned…
DetailsTHUNDER BAY, ON – Last Friday’s announcement of the government’s cuts to education funding has left some education workers at Lakehead District School Board (LDSB) fearing the worst for the safety of students in the region’s schools. The government’s education funding for 2019-20 slashed a total $2.13 million from Lakehead District School Board’s budgets and…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Thirty international language instructors with the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) will take part in a different kind of lesson on Thursday morning, May 2, as they begin the day at Queen’s Park in the company of students from TCDSB schools, teachers, parents and school board trustees. The group is marking…
DetailsOTTAWA, ON – 71% of the more than 1,500 residents polled in PC-held ridings in Ottawa, Glengarry, Renfrew and Pembroke say they don’t support the massive changes the PCs are planning to make to the province’s health system. Initially, these health system changes included merging the province’s 150 hospitals into 30-50 mega hospitals, privatizing services…
DetailsApril 28 is the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or Injured on the Job. On this day, we take time to remember the workers we have lost. CUPE Ontario also uses the occasion to join with allies to fight for laws that improve and enhance worker health and safety across Ontario. Across Canada…
DetailsSUDBURY, ON – After watching the elimination of more than half of the positions of an agency that enhances the quality of libraries across the province, the president of Local 4705 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 4705), called on residents of Northern Ontario to apply massive pressure to the Ford government before…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The union that represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario schools is calling today’s release of the 2019-20 Grants for Student Needs (GSNs) by the Ministry of Education “an attack on students, on public education and on the people who provide services to students.” It also projects a minimum loss of 2500 positions…
DetailsBRANTFORD, ON – Workers at Brant Family and Children’s Services (FACS) are hand-delivering a message to MPP Will Bouma after he backed out of a proposed meeting with the union to discuss recent layoffs to front-line staff at the agency. “The children and families who will be left behind by these layoffs and the people…
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TORONTO, ON – Premier Doug Ford’s massive cut to public health funding, which will impact outbreak and infection control, drinking water testing, vaccination rates and fuel hallway medicine, can only be described as “callously dangerous” public policy, says the union that represents more than 1000 Toronto public health staff and thousands of Toronto hospital workers.…
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