In the true tradition of trade unionism, CUPE Ontario will always choose justice over injustice, side with the powerless over the powerful, and support the colonized over the colonizer. Throughout the world, CUPE Ontario’s International Solidarity Committee (ISC) links members to workers’ global struggles so that we may stand in solidarity with all oppressed peoples.…
DetailsGuelph, ON – After a year of bargaining, and right as workers have begun building momentum towards a fair and necessary deal, Community Living Guelph Wellington (CLGW) has cried poverty and announced closures and layoffs that will hurt workers, people supported, and families. The more than 450 frontline developmental service workers in the Canadian Union…
DetailsSAULT STE. MARIE, ON – An incident on September 11 that caused a lockdown at the James L. McIntyre Centennial Library and triggered a Ministry of Labour investigation is a symptom of chronic health and safety problem in the city’s libraries, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 67. “Violence against library workers…
DetailsWindsor, ON – On Friday, CUPE workers from across the province will rally at the Regency Park Long-Term Care home in solidarity with seven long-term care staff who received layoff notices from the for-profit home operated by Universal Care. The seven staff include two dietary aides, three personal support workers, one registered nurse, and one…
DetailsFace à l’augmentation alarmante du nombre de postes vacants, aux fermetures sans précédent de salles d’urgence et aux milliers de patients qui meurent dans l’attente d’une intervention chirurgicale, trois grands syndicats représentant environ 70,000 travailleurs du secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario ont signé aujourd’hui à Queen’s Park un Pacte de solidarité pour sauver nos hôpitaux publics…
DetailsWhitby, ON – After two days of bargaining the Town of Whitby continues to push for unnecessary and harmful concessions, says municipal workers represented by CUPE Local 53. “Yesterday, the Employer put out a media release saying that we rejected an offer that included wage increases and benefit improvements but that’s, at best, only half…
DetailsBELLEVILLE, ON—The following is a statement from Kim Craig, a public health inspector and the president of CUPE Local 3314: “This afternoon, frontline workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health voted 81% in favour of ratifying our tentative agreement with the board of health. “We look forward to the employer successfully ratifying our new three-year…
DetailsBELLEVILLE, ON—After 10 days on strike, frontline public health workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health have reached a tentative agreement with the board of health. The workers’ bargaining committee resumed negotiations with management on Monday afternoon following news that their nurse coworkers, members of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) Local 31, ratified a collective agreement…
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CUPE Ontario marks September 30, National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, as a day of awareness and reflection on the realities of Indigenous history in our country. Before 2021, when it was named a national holiday, September 30 was commonly referred to as Orange Shirt Day, which honoured the survivors of residential schools and those…
DetailsWhitby, ON – Town of Whitby municipal workers are trying to avert a looming strike or lockout by ramping up efforts to warn about harmful concessions, says CUPE Local 53. “Instead of giving us a good explanation for why the employer needs full control to make members work an indefinite number of temporary assignments and…
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