NEWMARKET, ON – Fred Hahn, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, will be a guest speaker at a special event in Newmarket tomorrow commemorating the Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job. Hahn and CUPE Local 905 President Fred Watt will unveil a plaque and…
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May is Asian Heritage Month, and CUPE Ontario encourages all members to take this opportunity to reflect on the economic, social, cultural, and political contributions people of Asian decent have made to our country, our society and our union. Asian Heritage Month has been celebrated in the United States for over three decades. In December…
DetailsSUDBURY, Ont. – CUPE Ontario sends support and solidarity to the members of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation (OSSTF) who began a strike in the Rainbow District School Board today. “We send a clear message of solidarity on behalf of all CUPE Ontario members to the teachers who are beginning strike action today…
DetailsTORONTO – In pursuit of a balanced budget, the Liberal government has abandoned those Ontarians who rely on social services and the workers who deliver them. Commenting on yesterday’s provincial budget announcement, representatives from the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) charged that, despite the Liberal government’s claim to progressiveness and fairness, its budget…
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TORONTO, ON – Today’s Ontario budget begins a massive sell-off of public assets and service cuts that will reward bankers, but hurt Ontarians, says Fred Hahn, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. “Nobody voted for this,” said Hahn. “Selling off Hydro One and merging distribution companies will hand millions in…
DetailsToronto, ON ― Excellent care for children is the history of the The Hospital for Sick Children. But the hospital “leaves its sick and disabled staff in poverty,” says Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). Unlike almost all hospital employees who are covered under the Hospitals of Ontario Disability…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – The executive board of Ontario’s largest union has approved a half-million-dollar budget for the first phase of a campaign to stop the province’s selloff of Hydro One. “Across the province, people are waking up to the reality that our transmission and distribution lines are being sold off. The public is losing…
DetailsJoin an Emergency Telephone Townhall with CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn to discuss our plan to fight Hydro Privatization. Kathleen Wynne has announced that she’s moving ahead to sell 60% of Hydro One. Selling any portion of a vital public asset that makes us hundreds of millions a year is a bad idea. Our hydro…
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CUPE Ontario sends a message of support and solidarity to the members of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation (OSSTF) who began a strike in Durham Region today. CUPE Ontario is the province’s community union, representing 255,000 members in cities, towns and villages all across the province, including 55,000 education workers in schools across Ontario.…
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