TORONTO, ON – The aftermath of Premier Doug Ford’s 2023 brutal budget is looking grim for students, their families, and frontline workers across the province. With school boards already warning of layoffs because they’re underfunded, the provincial government has used an accounting trick to hide a real cut in public school funding for 2023-24. The…
DetailsOTTAWA – Despite the best efforts of academic workers to reach a fair deal over the weekend, picket lines will go up at Carleton University on Monday morning. “We have been at the bargaining table for months and have been crystal clear with the employer that they need to address our serious concerns around poverty-level…
DetailsOTTAWA – At a special membership meeting today, contract academic workers at Carleton University voted overwhelmingly against the university’s latest offer and reiterated their support for a strike if Carleton doesn’t address their concerns seriously. The more than 3,000 members of CUPE Local 4600 include graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants and contract instructors. The local…
DetailsTORONTO – CUPE Ontario delivered a stinging assessment of the Ford government’s provincial budget, as the union charged the government with deliberately underspending on vital services and failing to address the staffing crisis it has created in the hollowing out of the province’s public services. “Starving our public services has been an intentional choice of…
DetailsTORONTO – It’s a strange world where a tuition fee freeze is announced and almost no one cheers. But that’s the reality the Ford government faced earlier this month. And it happened because students and university workers alike know the freeze is only one side of the story. “In theory, a tuition fee freeze should…
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CUPE Ontario recognizes and honours March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD), which was proclaimed in 1966 as a day of remembrance by the United Nations. The day has its origins in one of the most brutal episodes of apartheid-era South Africa, the attack on peaceful protestors in Sharpeville…
DetailsTransportation planners do not accept being paid 19% less than their coworkers across Ontario and are determined to bargain a fair wage increase NAPANEE, ON – The seven employees who work for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services, members of CUPE Local 1479, are poised to walk off the job in a legal strike on Monday, April…
DetailsTORONTO – Workers at YouthLink, a mental health agency that helps roughly 3,000 Torontonians aged 12 to 24 each year, are unanimous in their belief that youth in crisis need consistent care provided by fairly paid workers. YouthLink’s clinical counsellors, child and youth workers, residential counsellors, outreach workers, shelter workers, student development workers and administrative…
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KINCARDINE (ON) – The municipal workers of Bruce, Grey & Wellington counties have donated $12,000 to three local non-profit organizations over the past month as part of a longstanding tradition of giving back to their communities. Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 255 donated to South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council ($5,200), WES for Youth…
DetailsTORONTO – What started a year ago with one-on-one conversations among workers culminated this month with a 100 percent certification vote as workers at the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The six members of the AECEO – the professional association for Early Childhood Educators in…
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