Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Last week’s by-election losses were a body blow to the Liberal strategy leading into next year’s provincial election. The Liberals went all out to deliver pre-emptive strikes against…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. OMERS pension autonomy achieved For 30 straight days early in the new year, CUPE Ontario achieved what many would have considered impossible putting workers pensions in the headlines, on the…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Who would ever have thought that a national debate on a pan-Canadian universal child care system would break out two months following the federal election? Surely Stephen Harper…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Sometimes it’s more convenient to pen a cynical article that focuses on such trivia as who blinked than it is to delve into the complexities of a legitimate…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 The salacious new book by Peter C. Newman about his erstwhile friend, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, sheds new light into the heart and soul of the country’s…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 What did Councillor Michael Thompson not understand about the impact of racial profiling on law abiding citizens? The Scarborough Centre councillor suggested recently that police should target young…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Paid work should be a bridge out of poverty. But for many in Ontario, it’s not. That’s because for nearly 300,000 workers, paid work means toiling…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. EDITORIAL – Bill Kotsopoulos may try to downplay his role in the province’s decision to repeal its legislation that all paramedics must take a mandatory flu shot, but we believe the publicity…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. You don’t have to go any further than one of Toronto’s waste transfer stations to see the outcome of free-market thinking and its pervasive and corrosive influence on local government and workers.…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Oped by Sid Ryan, CUPE Ontario President, It was more than 100 years ago when working people chanted these words in the struggle that would eventually win the eight-hour workday and the…
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