CUPE members in Bonfield prove fighting back works – Settlement pushes back major concessions and workers reinstated

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. After more than 10 months standing strong against an aggressive employer and a long list of concessions, the 16 members of CUPE Local 4616-2, employees of the Municipality of Bonfield, ratified a…

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Paramedic unions not backing Liberals

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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, ON – A Liberal press conference yesterday gave many in the media and public the misconception that unions representing emergency medical workers are backing the Ontario Liberal Party. This is not…

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CAS workers stage rally to ‘Stop the Shutdown’ of Brant FACS due to provincial funding cuts on Wednesday, June 4

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. BRANTFORD, Ont. – Brant Children’s Aid Society (CAS) workers are staging a ‘Stop the Shutdown’ of Brant Family and Children’s Services (FACS) rally on Wednesday, June 4, as the agency prepares to…

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Injured Workers’ Day

Every year on June 1st, we gather to recognize sisters and brothers who have been injured or made sick on the job and to raise our voices for safer workplaces and better treatment of all workers. This year, in the middle of a provincial election with the Hudak Conservatives planning to destroy public supports for…

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Injured Workers’ 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Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Every year on June 1st, we gather to recognize sisters and brothers who have been injured or made sick on the job and to raise our voices for safer workplaces and better…

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Picture of attendees of the International Solidarity forum at Convention 2014

International Solidarity Forum

Last night’ s international solidarity forum focused on the “Chevron’s Dirty Hands Campaign,” drawing parallels between oil operations in the Amazon and in North America, with an emphasis on the Alberta Tar Sands. Between 1964 and 1990, U.S. oil giant Texaco (now Chevron) dumping some 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Amazon in…

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Hundreds in Windsor demand action on poverty

Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. WINDSOR, ON – Hundreds of people rallied in Riverfront Festival Plaza today, calling on all parties to end Ontario’s growing poverty crisis. Organized by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario,…

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