BELLEVILLE, ON—The following is a statement from Kim Craig, a public health inspector and the president of CUPE Local 3314: “This afternoon, frontline workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health voted 81% in favour of ratifying our tentative agreement with the board of health. “We look forward to the employer successfully ratifying our new three-year…
DetailsBELLEVILLE, ON—After 10 days on strike, frontline public health workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health have reached a tentative agreement with the board of health. The workers’ bargaining committee resumed negotiations with management on Monday afternoon following news that their nurse coworkers, members of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) Local 31, ratified a collective agreement…
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CUPE Ontario marks September 30, National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, as a day of awareness and reflection on the realities of Indigenous history in our country. Before 2021, when it was named a national holiday, September 30 was commonly referred to as Orange Shirt Day, which honoured the survivors of residential schools and those…
DetailsWhitby, ON – Town of Whitby municipal workers are trying to avert a looming strike or lockout by ramping up efforts to warn about harmful concessions, says CUPE Local 53. “Instead of giving us a good explanation for why the employer needs full control to make members work an indefinite number of temporary assignments and…
Details(Peterborough, ON) – What the Peterborough County/City Paramedics is proposing to paramedics in negotiations isn’t good enough and that’s why negotiations have broken down, says the union representing them, CUPE Local 4911. “Staffing at the Peterborough County/City Paramedics has become a real problem,” says Natalie Waters, President of the CUPE Local 4911. “There are many…
DetailsThe deep corruption that has characterized Ford’s PCs from Day 1 has caught up with them again; the provincial government’s downward spiral was on clear display as Doug Ford announced the reversal of the ill-fated Greenbelt selloff. But Premier Ford’s pronouncements in his news conference fall short of what’s really needed. If he is indeed…
Details(Cochrane, ON) – Municipal workers in the town of Cochrane, Ontario, on strike since July 31st have just ratified a new collective agreement, ending the strike, says CUPE Local 71. “It was a long road but our members stayed on it and kept the pressure on the Town of Cochrane, and now we have a…
DetailsFrontline public health workers put the mayors of Belleville and Quinte West, the board of health, and Premier Doug Ford on notice: ‘Just like Ontarians who were shortchanged with the Greenbelt, we will not back down’. BELLEVILLE, ON—CUPE public health workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health met with the health unit’s management back at…
Details(Bradford, ON) – After 61 days on the picket line, Bradford West Gwillimbury Library workers and residents weren’t going to be silenced, said CUPE Local 905. “Open the library!” chanted supportive residents and workers when Mayor James Leduc tried to cut the number of speakers during Council’s Open Forum on Tuesday, September 19, even taking…
DetailsCUPE Ontario and the Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee (HCWCC) have examined the Ontario Ombudsman’s report, Lessons for the Long Term. The report describes, in devastating detail, the failure of the Ford Conservatives to provide adequate oversight of long-term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the report shows, the province’s inspection system was already under…
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