Convention App 2016

We are very pleased to introduce our new Convention app, available in both English and French on the web and in all 4 app stores. Choose sessions and add them to your personal schedule, find the exact locations of meetings and booths, read delegate kit documents on your device, discover cultural events, and more! Get…

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CUPE Ontario Convention to focus on protecting Ontarians from dangerous privatization schemes

TORONTO – Twelve hundred CUPE Ontario members are set to gather at the Toronto Sheraton Centre on Wednesday to open their annual convention, with a clear message for Premier Wynne: Your fiscally irresponsible privatization plans will hurt the people of our province and they must be stopped. “Our members work directly for municipalities and schools…

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Concerned community members join UCDSB education workers to protest cuts in services for children with special needs

BROCKVILLE, ON – A determined group of friends, some of whom have grandchildren attending Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) schools, are backing the board’s education workers in their efforts to protect frontline jobs and services from swingeing cuts. And although the group supports all workers fighting to protect the services they provide in UCDSB…

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Compassionate, skilled Civic hospital staffer wins award Presentation today May 19, Personal Support Worker Day

Toronto, Ont. ─ Brampton Civic Hospital personal support worker Carolynne Haynes has been awarded Personal Support Worker of the Year by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU)/CUPE. A ceremony to present Carolynne with her award is scheduled for Personal Support Worker Day, Thursday, May 19 (2016) at 2 p.m. the Brampton Civic Hospital, North…

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Greater diversification of nursing team, not less, will lead to better patient outcomes

TORONTO, Ont. — Fewer deaths, increased patient satisfaction, fewer falls, fewer bed sores, shorter lengths of stay are all documented benefits of a diversified nursing team observed in recent studies. “Ignoring this research on positive patient outcomes, to promote a single occupation as was recently done by Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) offends the…

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