On Monday, January 16th, CUPE Ontario celebrates the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. As trade unionists, we celebrate Dr. King because of his contributions to human rights and because we have a responsibility to carry on his work. Recognizing that the struggle for racial justice and the struggle for…
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GUELPH, ON — Employees at the University of Guelph are in disbelief after representatives from the University entered the office of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3913 unannounced to remove posters with messages related to bargaining issues. The office was empty when the University’s representative entered, but members of the CUPE 3913 –…
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NORTH BAY, ON – The national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the president of CUPE Ontario lace up their skates on Friday to take part in “Playing for a Fair Deal” alongside locked-out workers of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) of the District of Nipissing and Parry Sound, their friends…
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SUDBURY, ON – Kevin Flynn, Ontario’s labour minister is in Sudbury today and soon to be laid off hospital laundry workers would love a word with him. Problem is, they can’t really afford to pay the hefty ticket price to join the minister at the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce luncheon where he’s slated to speak.…
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OSHAWA, ON – As students and staff return to schools this week after the holiday break, 970 students at Blaisdale Montessori schools could be facing possible school closures starting next week if mediation talks between CUPE 5257 and management, scheduled for Friday, January 13, fail to reach a fair collective agreement, says the Canadian Union…
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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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