This is a historic day, friends. The Ford Conservatives have announced they would Repeal Bill 28 and get back to the bargaining table because of our coordinated, impassioned, and powerful pressure. 55,000 education workers – with the unwavering support of the rest of CUPE Ontario, the entire Canadian labour movement, and allies from every community…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Contract academic workers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have given their bargaining team an 85% mandate in favour of strike action, strongly backing up workers’ demands for greater job security that will bring benefits to students as well as workers. Contract instructors and assistants (also known as sessional lecturers…
DetailsWINDSOR, ON – A provincial wage enhancement for personal support workers (PSWs) that was supposed to have been made permanent disappeared from paycheques without warning to workers at Regency Park Nursing Home, a private, for-profit long-term care facility in Windsor, Ontario. “We were shocked, to say the least. We thought it must have been an…
DetailsNORTH BAY, ON – In their own words North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) registered practical nurses, cleaners, care aides and other staff flag a culture of management bullying and just plain indifference to their daily struggles at work, in a recent survey conducted by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions-CUPE. The comment segment of…
DetailsOn Monday, October 31st, the Ford Conservatives took the unprecedented step of proposing legislation that would force a contract on education workers, violating workers’ constitutional right to bargain fairly, keeping many workers in poverty, instead of continuing with negotiations. To pass it, they’ve invoked the notwithstanding clause, overriding the Charters’ protections of the fundamental right…
DetailsKINGSTON, ON – Kingston Health Sciences Centre must immediately add 180 full-time staff to deal with higher patient volumes from this fall and winter’s COVID-19 wave and pressing flu season or patient care will continue to decline and ambulance offload delays will increase, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and OPSEU/SEFPO paramedics said at…
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CUPE has said it will explore every avenue to fight the bill, but the government said it intends to use the notwithstanding clause to keep the eventual law in force TORONTO — A union representing approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers said Monday its members will walk off the job on Friday despite the government tabling…
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Despite the legislation, CUPE said education workers still stage a province wide protest and walk off the job this Friday, Nov. 4. The Ontario government has tabled legislation that will impose a contract on education workers and not allow them to legally walk off the job. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), who represent…
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its approximately 55,000 education workers will stage a provincewide protest Friday, meaning they will be off the job despite the Ontario government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said whether workers continue to protest…
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The Ontario government tabled legislation on Monday that was supposed to prevent an education worker strike from occurring on Friday. The 82-page bill, when passed, would establish a four-year collective agreement with approximately 55,000 school support staff under the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)—including custodians, early childhood educators, education assistants and administrative staff—and make…
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