Bracebridge, ON – Frontline education workers rallied outside of the Muskoka Education Centre on Tuesday evening, urging Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) trustees to reject the proposed 2022-2023 board budget because it contained staffing cuts that will harm the quality of education for students. “We’re bringing our pink slips to the school board meeting…
DetailsWINDSOR, ON – During their annual Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) convention in the City of Roses last week, 300 frontline education workers from across the province contributed money to support Street Help Homeless Centre of Windsor. Today, representatives of CUPE Locals 27, 1348, 1358, and 4299 – made up of frontline education…
DetailsBarrie, ON — Municipal workers represented by CUPE Local 2380 have voted for a strong strike mandate of 99.5 per cent as negotiations continue with the City of Barrie. The union represents close to 600 municipal workers who provide a range of public services including water and wastewater treatment, parks and recreation, financial and administrative…
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PETERBOROUGH, ON – Frontline education workers rallied outside of the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington (PVNC) Catholic District School Board office on Monday evening, urging trustees not to pass the 2022-2023 budget as it was presented because it contained staffing cuts that will harm the quality of education for students. “PVNC trustees have a choice…
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Toronto Education Workers Local 4400 (TEW) is made up of approximately 17,000 education workers working primarily within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). TEW is also home to childcare workers from various childcare centres and caretakers from Viamonde French Board, representing over 400 job classifications and over 1,000 worksites. Case Study Highlights Started The Working…
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Ontario’s three paid sick days are set to expire on July 31, unless the Ford government again changes its mind. Premier Doug Ford’s labour minister, Monte McNaughton, didn’t respond to questions about the program on Wednesday, including whether it would continue. Toronto pediatrician Dr. Daniel Bierstone noted that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over yet. Even…
DetailsAs Pride season begins across the province, CUPE Ontario is taking time to celebrate our victories and recommit to sustained solidarity and activism with the 2SLGBTQI+ communities. We’re recommitting because there’s undeniably much more work to do. We still need full access to gender-affirming care. The cuts made by the Ford Conservatives to trans health…
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Mindful of inflation, Premier Doug Ford has promised to be “fair” in upcoming public sector negotiations. Unions say that’s impossible while Bill 124 exists, but Ford hasn’t ruled out axing the bill, which caps public-sector wage increases at one per cent per year (though the Treasury Board noted that workers can still get pay bumps…
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Most unions did not support Ford leading up to the election, according to an op–ed written by leaders of three large Ontario labour organizations. “Make no mistake about it — the majority of unions and workers support Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP in this election,” the op-ed reads. Fred Hahn, the president of the…
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