“Ontario’s school boards are in severe crisis”: Survey of 12,000 CUPE education workers finds extreme underfunding and understaffing has caused widespread violence, burnout and lack of supports for students in Ottawa-area schools

School Boards, Uncategorized

OTTAWA – A recent survey of Ontario education workers including Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators, Child and Youth workers, custodians, maintenance and trades workers, and school secretaries represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) shows that a severe crisis in underfunding has led to…

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“$28 more per paycheque is simply not enough,” mental health and supportive housing workers in Peel say in resounding strike vote

Solidarity

 PEEL, ON – With more Canadians struggling with mental health challenges and a cost of living crisis, jobs at Services and Housing in the Province (SHIP) have become increasingly difficult in recent years just as workers wages have stagnated. That was the resounding message delivered in yesterday’s strike vote by members of CUPE 966 who…

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Towards a child care system of a good jobs and great learning

Child Care, Social Services

CUPE Ontario and the Social Service Workers Coordinating Committee enthusiastically welcomed yesterday’s announcement by the federal government regarding the extension of the federal child care program until 2031 and applaud the move by the outgoing Trudeau government. CUPE members, along with millions of other Canadians, are only too aware of the looming threat of a…

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“Protect Ontario Families”: Over 100 child care organizations send Open Letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford urging him to sign $10aDay child care funding extension

Child Care

TORONTO – Over 100 Ontario organizations – including child care programs from across Ontario and provincial early learning and child care associations – have come together to send an Open Letter to Premier Doug Ford today in response to news that the federal government has offered all provinces and territories 5-year extensions to their Canada-Wide…

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