Tamir’s developmental service workers urge agency to protect services by using funding “the way it was intended”

Social Services

OTTAWA, ON – Tamir, an Ottawa agency that provides integrated living in a Jewish environment for people with developmental disabilities, is jeopardizing services for its participants by refusing to adhere to Ontario’s Ministry of Community and Social Services directives for creating stable and secure conditions for frontline workers. To date, Tamir has received nearly $450,000…

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Emergency After Hours Staff overwhelmingly reject Children’s Aid Society’s ‘so-called final offer’; month-long strike continues

Social Services

CUPE 2316.1 calls on Children’s Aid to return quickly to bargaining table and “get at-risk kids the supports they need, deserve and have been deprived of for a month”   TORONTO, ON – Emergency After Hours Staff (EAHS) for the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST), have overwhelmingly rejected a so-called ‘final offer’ presented by…

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Strike deadline set for CUPE Ontario’s 55,000 education workers

School Boards

TORONTO, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 55,000 education workers in Ontario’s schools, requested a no-board report on Wednesday, potentially putting its members across the province in a legal strike position the first week of school. CUPE’s no-board request was initiated after its demand for conciliation failed to produce sufficient bargaining…

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After a month on the line, talks resume today between striking Emergency After Hours staff and Children’s Aid Society of Toronto

Social Services

CUPE 2316-1 welcomes employer’s decision to return to bargaining table TORONTO, ON – After more than three weeks, striking Emergency After Hours Service (EAHS) workers, members of Local 2316-1 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 2316-1) are looking forward to a resumption of bargaining today with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto. “For…

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Statement by CUPE 5089 president regarding conclusion of Toronto police investigation in January 29 incident involving two TTC Special Constables

Municipal

TORONTO, ON – Following reports confirming the conclusion of the Toronto Police Service Professional Standards branch into the investigation of two Toronto Transit Commission Special Constables for their actions during a January 29 arrest, James Bingham, President of Local 5089 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 5089) issued the following statement: “Last week,…

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