(NORTH BAY, ON) – Minimum wage food service workers at North Bay’s Nipissing and Canadore College, members of CUPE Local 1165 Unit 7, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike after seeing no movement on the issue of wage parity, said the union. “The contractor, Compass, pays food service workers at both Laurentian University and…
DetailsTORONTO – DynaLIFE Labs, a company contracted by the Alberta government to privatize health care services, is trying to take away a pension plan from its employees. The twist? DynaLIFE’s majority shareholder is the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), a pension plan serving over half a million Canadians. In 2022, Alberta’s UCP government awarded…
DetailsTORONTO – CUPE Ontario has pledged its full support to the coalition of five major health unions, including CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE), as they gear up for a province-wide campaign of resistance to the Ford government’s “three-step plan” for privatizing hospital care services. “Our union will raise its voice on behalf of…
DetailsTORONTO – Five major Ontario healthcare unions are calling on the Ford government to not move forward with its plan to siphon provincial funding from public hospital care and hand it to private, for-profit surgical clinics, a risky venture that will cost Ontarians dearly and damage access to public care. The unions – CUPE/OCHU, Ontario…
DetailsEach year on the third Monday of January, we collectively honour the achievements and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was a trailblazer in the fight to end racial segregation and who promoted non-violent means to end the era of inequality in the United States and abroad. This year’s celebration will be on…
DetailsJanuary 10, 2023 Sault Ste Marie, ON -Members of CUPE 4148 are caretakers, maintenance workers, carpenters, educational assistants (EAs), early childhood educators (ECEs), and clerical staff employed by the Huron Superior Catholic District School Board (HSCDSB). There are very few, if any, other organizations to which workers supply so much personal information as they provide…
DetailsSAULT STE MARIE, ON – The workers who dug Sault Ste Marie out of huge Christmas holiday snowstorms have voted to strike, if necessary, to get a wage increase they need to receive for their families to keep up with the skyrocketing cost of living and the city needs to provide to retain and recruit…
DetailsWATERLOO, ON – Sessional instructors at the University of Waterloo are the newest members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), following a decision at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB). The decision comes after a vote in December, when an overwhelming majority of instructors voted to join the union, which represents academic workers…
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Informations Background information on our campaign In 2020, the OMERS Sponsors Corporation board of directors – our pension plan’s decision-making body — voted to eliminate guaranteed indexing for service worked after January 1, 2023. That’s a cut that directly affects your retirement security. Now the board for the OMERS Sponsors Corporation is in the process of…
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