ESPANOLA, ON — With provincial funding for Ontario hospital services falling for years, understaffing is getting worse in hospital environmental services, with reports of layoffs and cuts occurring regularly, a survey of front line cleaning staff has found. Concerns are growing among environmental service workers that Ontario hospitals do not have the capacity and enough…
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ST. CATHARINES, ON – Instructors, lab demonstrators and teaching assistants (TAs) at Brock University are taking exception to the university’s recognition as a top employer in the region. Brock University was recently named one of the top employers in the Hamilton-Niagara Region for 2016. But for the TAs, lab demonstrators and contract instructors who do…
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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Jan. 7, 2017) – Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be voting on a tentative contract extension reached in talks with the provincial government and the Council of Trustee Associations. Local leaders met in Toronto today to discuss the outcome of those talks, and they agreed…
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NORTH BAY and PARRY SOUND, ON – Representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are calling on Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS to remember its own past statements about the pressures on child protection services in the north and to stop peddling half-truths and inaccuracies about the reasons it locked out its workers…
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BURK’S FALLS, ON – In a show of solidarity and support for child protection services in East Parry Sound, workers locked out of their jobs by the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound will hold a march and rally in Burk’s Falls on Friday. Debbie Hill, president of Local…
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CORNWALL, ON — With provincial funding for Ontario hospital services falling for years, understaffing is getting worse in hospital environmental services, with reports of layoffs and cuts occurring regularly, a survey of front line cleaning staff has found. Concerns are growing among environmental service workers that Ontario hospitals do not have the capacity and…
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NORTH BAY and PARRY SOUND – Workers locked out of their jobs by the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound will be joined on the picket line on Wednesday by France Gélinas, MPP for Nickel Belt, who is speaking out against the society’s use of replacement workers. The MPP…
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On Thursday, December 1, 2106, Ontario PC MPP Gila Martow introduced Motion 36 in the Ontario Legislature. Condemning the work of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement (BDS) as a ‘hate movement, Motion 36 grossly misrepresents the work of grassroots organizers fighting for Palestinian human rights and calling for an end to Israel’s ongoing war crimes…
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NORTH BAY, ON – Frontline child protection worker and administrative and support staff, locked out of their jobs by Nipissing and Parry Sound children’s aid society, will begin the first day of their lockout with a strong show of solidarity by the workers themselves and support from their allies from communities in the districts of…
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