Ontario child care advocates celebrate hard-won victory with signing Canada-Ontario child care agreement; call for stronger child care workforce strategy

Child Care, Social Services, Solidarity

Toronto, ON— Ontario child care advocates are celebrating the signing of the Canada-Ontario child care agreement, but are also warning that child care expansion will fail without addressing the sector’s plummeting staff retention and growing worker shortage. “Today is a huge step forward, but we must learn from the mistakes of our past and correct…

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Gilbert Centre workers vote unanimously to join other AIDS service organizations in CUPE

Social Services, Solidarity

BARRIE, ON – Following a unanimous vote on March 10, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) has officially recognized the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) as the union for workers at the Gilbert Centre for Social and Support Services in Barrie. “Even in very progressive agencies, workers need a collective voice. When you’re really…

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Child care workers reach agreement with KDSB to continue vital services in Sioux Lookout

Child Care, COVID-19, School Boards

Sioux Lookout, ON—Families in Sioux Lookout can be assured that child care services will continue in the region after the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the Kenora District Services Board (KDSB) pen a deal to ensure Biidaaban and Sioux Mountain Public School Children’s Centres avert closure. “Families, workers, and the broader community of…

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“The Struggle Continues:” CUPE Ontario Statement on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Racial Justice, Solidarity

On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, police opened fire on a crowd of Black demonstrators who had taken to the streets to protest racial segregation in apartheid South Africa. The police murdered 69 peaceful demonstrators and injured 180 others, including some 50 women and children. This atrocity became widely known…

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On World Water Day, CUPE commits to end water injustice in Indigenous communities and to fight privatization of water and wastewater services

Aboriginal Council, COVID-19, Governmental

Safe, reliable water and wastewater services are a human right and the heart of healthy communities. But these rights are denied to many Indigenous communities in Canada. Water services and resources are also under growing pressure to privatize. The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted just how important clean water is to our health and safety. Clean water…

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