This year, the labour movement lost a giant: Brother Terry O’Connor was a tireless activist and an inspiration to countless union members over the years. He passed away last month in Oshawa and was laid to rest in Powassan, Ontario. Terry was CUPE Ontario’s longest-serving Secretary-Treasurer, spending 16 years as an officer of our union.…
Details(Hamilton, ON) Today, 2,800 teaching and research assistants at McMaster University ended a strike and ratified a new agreement with important gains due to a reinvigorated university community, says CUPE Local 3906. “We took on a truly conservative university, mobilized students, teaching and research assistants, and faculty, and we came out the other side with…
DetailsCUPE Ontario has added its voice to the growing chorus of condemnation around the executions in Iran of two young people who were involved with the nationwide protests triggered by the death in custody of Jina Mahsa Amini. CUPE Ontario expressed its profound shock and condemnation at the deaths of Majidreza Rahnavard and Mohsen Shekari,…
Details(Toronto, ON) Sessional lecturers, music professionals, writing instructors and sessional instructional assistants at the University of Toronto made important financial gains with a new collective agreement thanks to union-busting Bill 124 being struck down, says CUPE Local 3902. “Members of Unit 3 came through for students during the pandemic, and yet they faced precarious work…
DetailsMississauga, ON – On Tuesday, December 6, just weeks before the Christmas holidays, CUPE 66 emergency dispatchers for the City of Mississauga were told they were immediately being laid off, as a private contractor took over their jobs on the same day. “This was completely unexpected after we had received such exemplary reviews in August,”…
DetailsIn tandem with so many around the globe, CUPE Ontario is proud to mark December 10 as International Human Rights Day. This day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This cornerstone document established a broad range of fundamental rights and freedoms to…
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Thousands of McMaster University teaching and research assistants are walking off the job today after their union and university were unable to reach an agreement. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 2,900 teaching and research assistants, were unable to reach a deal with the university in their final mediated bargaining session on Friday.…
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Teaching assistants at McMaster University have been walking the picket line for more than two weeks, in a strike that now threatens to disrupt final exams. Teaching assistants at McMaster University have been walking the picket line for more than two weeks, in a strike that now threatens to disrupt final exams. It’s one of…
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TAs and RAs in-lieu are now one week into a strike after an agreement wasn’t reached in their negotiations with CUPE 3906 Since April 2022, CUPE Local 3906 has been negotiating on the behalf of McMaster University teaching assistants and research assistants. However, in a historic vote in late October, 90 per cent of workers…
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Faculty member says end-of-term marks for students may be at stake Nearly two weeks since teaching and research assistants with McMaster University went on strike in Hamilton, workers say they are waiting for a sign from the institution that it might come back to the bargaining table with a new offer. “The university still…
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