WHITBY, ON – While two Durham-area school boards turn to unqualified staff to fill vacancies, education workers are united in their fight to improve schools, better serve students, and secure good jobs. Members of CUPE Local 218, representing 4000 education workers, participated in an historic strike vote alongside their 51,000 coworkers across the province. An…
DetailsMembers of CUPE Ontario working in healthcare, municipalities, universities, and in social services have always known the value of education workers. The 55,000 members of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) – custodians, maintenance and library workers, secretaries, early childhood educators, educational assistants, IT professionals – working in publicly-funded schools across Ontario are…
DetailsToronto, ON – Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers remain united in their fight for student success and good jobs. Education workers’ central bargaining committee returned to the table yesterday expecting to see movement that would address the workers’ twin goals of better pay and better services. On Monday, the results of education workers’ historic strike vote…
DetailsWINDSOR, ON – CUPE 543 city workers will be distributing gift hampers to individuals and families in need in Windsor this morning as part of a charity drive in partnership with the Windsor-Essex Food Bank Association. The hampers were packed by municipal workers commemorating the ninth year of an initiative they call ‘Operation Giveback.’ “Operation…
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Lawyers and advocates were concerned — especially for marginalized people — that unionized workers would lose access to the human rights tribunal. Unionized workers in Ontario will still be able to file complaints independently at the province’s human rights tribunal, the tribunal has determined, despite a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision that limits access…
DetailsKENORA, ON – Unless hospitals in northwestern Ontario hire 150 more staff (yearly), problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing shortages will deepen as the population ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at a media conference in Kenora today. CUPE based its call for the 150 new hospital staff…
DetailsKENORA, ON – Unless hospitals in northwestern Ontario hire 150 more staff (yearly), problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing shortages will deepen as the population ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at a media conference in Kenora today. CUPE based its call for the 150 new hospital staff…
DetailsDerek Hamilton, president of CUPE 5911, and Nicole Runge, vice president of CUPE 5911, two Indigenous leaders of the union that represents paramedics in Kenora District, released the following statement: “We are deeply saddened by the tragic death on the Onigaming First Nations reserve on September 15. Currently, there is a thorough and vital investigation…
DetailsToronto, ON – Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers are united in their fight for student success and good jobs. In an historic strike vote, 45,433 out of 55,000 frontline CUPE education workers cast ballots, and 43,821 – an overwhelming 96.5% – voted “yes” to send a strong message to the Ford government: Education cuts are not…
DetailsOn September 30 Remember and Reflect on the Truth and Realities of Indigenous History As Canada marks the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, CUPE Ontario’s Indigenous Council is asking CUPE members and locals to learn about the historical and current realities of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people of Canada, participate in…
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