TORONTO, ON – Rainy skies couldn’t put a damper on a ‘read-in’ organized outside the Toronto Reference Library by the workers who make Toronto’s public libraries one of the city’s most well-used and popular services. The members of Local 4948 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 4948), who organized the event, were joined…
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GUELPH, ON – CUPE 4325, representing 130 social service workers, reached a tentative agreement with the Family and Children’s Services of Guelph and Wellington County earlier today. The workers will vote on the tentative settlement tomorrow with the possibility of returning to work on Monday, if the agreement is ratified by both parties. The workers…
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GUELPH, ON – After repeated attempts by CUPE asking management to return to the bargaining table, management at Family and Children’s Services of Guelph and Wellington County is pushing workers on strike by flatly rejecting the union’s latest invitation to meet this morning (Saturday) at 10:00 a.m. Picket lines will go up on Monday, April…
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NORTH BAY, Ont. — Long-term care staff from North Bay and other north eastern Ontario communities plan a noon rally for Monday, April 11 in front Cassellholme Home for the Aged (at Olive and Cassells streets). They’re adding their voice, to a growing number of people encouraging the Cassellholme board to re-think its current preoccupation…
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GUELPH, ON – Frontline Children’s Aid Society (CAS) workers at Family and Children’s Services of Guelph and Wellington County rejected management’s ‘final’ offer in a ratification vote last night and union representatives have asked the employer to return to the bargaining table to resume negotiations in an effort to avert a service shutdown as early…
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BURLINGTON, ON – Halton Catholic District School Board Educational Assistants (EAs) and Designated Early Childhood Educators (DECEs), represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), have reached local tentative agreements with their employer. The school board workers will review and vote on a three-year agreement later next week. “We are pleased that we were…
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TORONTO, ON – The announcement that Ontario’s Liberal government is selling another block of Hydro One shares just days after a Liberal fundraising scandal broke is an affront to democracy, says Fred Hahn, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Ontario) and a leading voice in the Keep Hydro Public campaign. “Just days…
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GUELPH, ON – After being mandated to accept zero per cent wage increases in their last contract and discovering that senior management received a 9 per cent wage increase in one year alone during the same period, frontline Children’s Aid Society (CAS) workers at Family and Children’s Services of Guelph and Wellington County are standing…
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