PC’s attack on health system threatens patient care: Ontario health care workers begin vigorous response

TORONTO, ON – Calling PC government legislation introduced today, “a serious threat to patient care,” the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE (OCHU) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Ontario), representing 80,000 hospital, long-term care and home and community care staff, will begin escalating actions province-wide to push the government to reconsider its “radical…

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CUPE paramedics support the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society

TORONTO – The provincial chair of Ontario paramedics represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) met today with representatives of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society (TOPS), at the Moss Park Overdose Prevention Site, a satellite program of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. CUPE Ontario medics recently made a $7,500 donation to support…

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CUPE Ontario calls recent ‘Kryptonite’ comments by Premier Ford an insult to parents and children living with Autism

TORONTO, ON – Doug Ford is No superhero, and Ontario families who have been struggling for years to get appropriate treatment for their children living with autism are certainly not some imaginary rock. Today’s comments by Premier Doug Ford, comparing children with autism to the fictional, strength-sapping kryptonite in the Superman comics, shows Ontario’s PC…

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Pink Triangle Day 2019

Today, we embrace love’s diversity in celebrating LGBTQI2S+ people, families, and communities. We recognize their resilience in the face of murderous acts of violence perpetrated by Bruce McArthur. We reaffirm our solidarity in their struggle against the oppression of the Ford PC government and wider societal homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. In Nazi Germany, thousands of…

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Government “reforms” will leave families affected by autism on their own and struggling for support

– CUPE joined by Ontario Autism Coalition in condemning decision that divides children with autism into “haves” and “have nots” –   TORONTO, ON – The Ford government’s reckless changes to the way it supports children with autism put desperately needed services at risk and make it clear to their families that they’re on their…

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