PEMBROKE, ON – Over the last few years, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1502 at the Pembroke Regional Hospital, have often boarded buses at the crack of dawn to join thousands of like-minded defenders of public health care at several large ‘Stop the Cuts’ rallies across the province. On Tuesday…
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SUDBURY, ON – Despite significant job losses to a hospital laundry in southern Ontario and the near closure of their workplace, Giselle Dawson and the remaining Sudbury Hospital Laundry workers continue to advocate for an end to cuts to hospital care. Consistently, the remaining members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 2841 have taken…
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CUPE Ontario stands strongly with the more than 2,500 General Motors (GM) workers in their fight to save their jobs in Oshawa, says the union’s president, Fred Hahn. “GM’s decision to close their Oshawa plant is an example of corporate greed at it’s worst. Despite raking in $6 billion in profits from the work done…
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CUPE Ontario members stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and activists at the Unist’ot’en Camp defending their territory and the environment against big oil and right-wing politicians. Last month, TransCanada Coastal GasLink sought an injunction directing hereditary chiefs to remove the gate at Unist’ot’en Camp, allowing its agents to build a pipeline through their…
DetailsAs 2018 draws to a close, many of us are taking a well-earned break from work to spend time with family. While we do, let’s not forget the members of our union who work over the holidays to look after our loved ones and keep our communities strong while we’re away. Let us also reflect…
DetailsMISSISSAUGA, ON – Representatives of CUPE Local 966, representing 3,500 workers in Peel Region, will visit the Mississauga Food Bank on Tuesday, December 18th, to donate $3,500 to the food bank’s efforts to fight hunger this winter season. “Every year, the Mississauga Food Bank provides food for over 2.6 million meals to hungry neighbours in…
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Toronto, ON (December 17, 2018) – The Ford Conservatives’ extraordinary decision to recall the Ontario legislature and force power workers “back-to-work” when they are not even on strike represents a precedent-setting attack on the constitutional right to free collective bargaining, says Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario. “An attack on the rights of any worker…
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(December 10, 2018) Across Canada and as recently as 2017, Indigenous women report being forcibly or coercively sterilized. Some women were incorrectly told the procedure is reversible. Others were separated from their babies until they consented to a tubal ligation. Forced and coerced sterilizations of Indigenous women are a result of systemic violence and discrimination…
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On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rights enshrined in that declaration – among them them the right to seek asylum from persecution, freedom from arbitrary detention, and equality without discrimination before the law, were deemed to apply equally to all human beings. Yet 70 years…
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