Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Toronto, Feb 5: The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontarios campaign on long-term care has won a major victory. Led by CUPE Ontario and its long-term care locals, the Ontario Council…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Board of Directors of OMERS and CEO Paul Haggis have decided to part ways, two years before the end of Haggiss five-year contract. Haggiss troubles began soon after arriving…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 week I was at Queen’s Park making a presentation to a government committee on long-term care legislation. As I sat twiddling my…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Page: A13 Section: Opinion Byline: Source: I grew up poor in a family of 10 children in the Republic of Ireland. At the time, Ireland had one of the highest poverty…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 If you are a baby boomer in Ontario today, you had better take a long hard look at this province’s stock of long-term care facilities, especially…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 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DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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…
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