Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. New Report exposes huge flaws in the numbers behind the government’s push to close schools TORONTO,ON – It’s time to put the brakes on school closures, warns Ontario’s largest union,…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. – A dangerous and outmoded staffing situation at homeless shelter, A Place Called Home, is putting both residents and workers in jeopardy and the practice has become…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. CUPE Ontario’s university workers join local campus representatives to highlight underfunding and lack of transparency HAMILTON, Ont. – It’s a question you hear all the time on campus, especially…
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American man who has been in prison in the Unted States for the past 39 years. Despite evidence of law enforcement officers creating false evidence against Peltier, efforts to secure his freedom have been denied. For 22 consecutive years, the Leonard Peltier Defence Committee Canada (LPDCC) has organized the 22nd…
DetailsWhen she became Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario in 2010, Sister Candace Rennick made history, becoming the youngest person and first woman elected to that position. Now she’s added a few more historic milestones for our union, becoming the first ever CUPE Ontario officer and first member of the CUPE National Executive Board to have a…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. When she became Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario in 2010, Sister Candace Rennick made history, becoming the youngest person and first woman elected to that position. Now she’s added a few more…
DetailsSUDBURY, Ont. — Municipal child care workers today urged Sudbury provincial by-election candidates to support their call for new “mitigation” funding to keep Junior Citizens Child Care Centre open. Despite Sudbury families’ increasing need for after-hours child care and appeals by parents using the centre not to close it, the City of Greater Sudbury council…
DetailsIn a historic decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the right to strike is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The ruling came from a case brought by unions in Saskatchewan, who challenged a 2008 provincial law which limited the right to strike by public sector workers. “This decision confirms what…
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