Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan I think I know what the messages on Jimmy Carter’s voicemail sound like. Last month, the former US president released his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. The Health Care Workers’ Coordinating Committee brings together locals representing more than 40,000 members in Ontario’s hospitals, long-term care facilities, community care and emergency services. It represents hospital dietary, service and maintenance…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan  While the Harper government was busy in the House of Commons rushing through recognition of Quebeckers as a nation, its representatives at the United Nations…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan This past Monday, voters in Ontario sent a strong message to local politicians that they are in no mood to pander to pro-“urban sprawl” councillors or pro-cuts school…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan Smooth Rock Falls, population 1,800, is located between Cochrane and Kapuskasing. The community was recently devastated by the announced closure of the Tembec paper mill, the town’s principal…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan Oh, the hypocrisy of it all. There I was dozing my way through the six o’clock news last week when I was awakened by an all too familiar…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan You can always tell when the right wing in Canada is losing control of the agenda by the sharp increase in name-calling and demonization of their…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan A topsy-turvy combination of political grandstanding, broken promises, conflicting priorities and chronic underfunding continues to rock public education in Ontario. The education policies of the McGuinty Liberals…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan After more then a month of bloody fighting and destruction in the Middle East, the guns and bombs are almost silenced. The lessons from this conflict are only…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. When CUPE Ontario launched a lawsuit against the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) two years ago, OMERS vilified CUPE Ontario maintaining the CUPE claims were “simply not reflective of the truth.”…
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