TORONTO, ON – Wednesday morning at Queen’s Park, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario will release a legal opinion from Steven Shrybman, a partner at Sack Goldblatt Mitchell, on the provincial government’s plans to sell a stake in Hydro One. CUPE requested the opinion because of concerns over the legality of government…
DetailsToronto, ON ― Claudia George front line staff at a Toronto nursing home where a resident was killed by another resident in 2013, today urged Ontario’s health minister to intervene immediately to stop a 200 hour a week cut to resident care at the home. At a Queen’s Park media conference, George cautioned that The…
DetailsTORONTO – Results have been tallied in strike votes held across Ontario over the month of March, and education workers have given their union a 93% mandate to take job action if necessary in the current round of provincial negotiations. “That number says it all,” said Terri Preston, chair of CUPE’s provincial school board bargaining…
DetailsAcross the province, thousands of CUPE Ontario members will wear pink on April 8 in recognition of the International Day of Pink. We wear pink on this day as part of our continuing stand against bullying, discrimination, homophobia and transphobia in our schools and communities. The Day of Pink began in 2007, when two Nova…
DetailsToronto, ON ― A 200 hour a week cut to resident care at the Wexford Residence, the Toronto nursing home where a resident was brutally killed in 2013 by another resident, poses a safety risk, warn front line staff holding a media conference this Thursday, April 9 (11:30 a.m.) at the Queen’s Park media studio.…
DetailsToronto, ON – Home care and community-based personal support workers (PSWs) were left in the lurch yesterday, waiting for a much anticipated $1.50 wage increase, promised to them by the Ontario Premier and the former health minister. The April 1, $1.50 raise, is the second in a series of phased-in PSW wage enhancements totalling $4/hour…
Details‘Historic’ agreement contains broad improvements to pay and working conditions, will make York a ‘leader’ on equity issues TORONTO, Ont. – By overwhelming margins, members of Units 1 and 3 of Local 3903 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 3903) have voted to ratify a three-year collective agreement with York University. …
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Roxanne James gets special mail delivery, rally at her Scarborough office tomorrow Scarborough, Ontario – Busloads of universal health care supporters will hold a rally and make a special mail delivery to Conservative MP Roxanne James’ Scarborough office tomorrow (March 31), the national day of action to save public health care. It’s been a…
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