Ill patients being denied services as need for home care up 33% in SW, while provincial funding lags behind demand

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. LONDON, Ont. – In an effort to deal with a 33 per cent spike in the demand for home care, and inadequate provincial funding for services, the South West Community Care Access…

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Ensure public health services with a fair and equitable agreement, say Peterborough’s health unit workers

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Workers at Peterborough’s County-City Health Unit are urging its management to protect the public health interests of the region’s residents by taking a new approach to contract negotiations with…

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World AIDS Day

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.   Around the world, an estimated 35 million people live with HIV and 1.5 million died of AIDS-related illnesses last year. While new treatments and education are bringing down those rates…

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Wanted: a fair deal for frontline workers to protect services at SPRINT Senior Care

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Personal support workers (PSWs), drivers, activationists, community social workers and other workers at SPRINT Senior Care are fighting for a collective agreement that respects the value of their work. They want to…

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Enquête : l’aide sociale en plein chaos alors qu’un nouveau système informatique n’est que misère pour les Ontariens vulnérables

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO (Ontario) – Selon un flux de réponses à une enquête menée par le Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP), les bénéficiaires vulnérables de l’aide sociale sont victimes de l’introduction chaotique…

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Social assistance in chaos as new computer system delivers misery for vulnerable Ontarians: survey

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. TORONTO, Ont. – Vulnerable people on social assistance are the victims of the chaotic introduction of a new case management system for Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program, according to…

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Injured Workers’ Demonstration

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Join Fred Hahn at the 23rd Annual Injured Workers’ Demonstration Ministry of Labour400 University Avenue, Toronto(just south of Dundas – St. Patrick subway)Monday December 8th, 2014 11:00 a.m. Not…

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Harry’s Last Stand December 4th

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Thursday, December 4th,  7:30 – 9:00 pm (doors open at 7pm) The 519 Church Street Community Centre 519 Church street at Wellesley • www.the519.org Cash bar.Harry’s Last Stand will be…

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