Bargaining with Infrastructure Health and Safety Association stalls even after overwhelming strike vote by OCEU-CUPE 1750 members

Health and Safety, Solidarity

TORONTO – After two months of bargaining, workers at the Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA) voted 97.3% in favour of strike action as bargaining reaches a critical point. The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU/CUPE 1750) bargaining team, representing 154 health & safety trainers and support workers, continued negotiations with the Infrastructure Health and Safety…

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Clock ticking toward strike deadline at York University

Solidarity, University

TORONTO – After six months of negotiations with York University without significant progress, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3903 has filed for a “no board,” setting the clock ticking toward a possible strike. Nearly 3,000 contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants have been in negotiations with the university since June 2023.…

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CUPE Ontario’s Statement for the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia

Human RIghts, International Solidarity, Solidarity, Uncategorized

CUPE Ontario stands in solidarity with communities from coast to coast on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia, observed on January 29th. This day serves as a solemn reminder of the tragic events that unfolded in Quebec City in 2017, when a gunman entered a mosque…

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CUPE Members working in Home and Community Care Support Services to protest at Ontario Treasury Board to demand a fair deal at the bargaining table!

Health Care, Home Care, Solidarity, Uncategorized

TORONTO – On Wednesday morning, a delegation representing 1,600 CUPE members working in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) were offered an insulting wage increase at the bargaining table by the Ontario Treasury Board and the Ford Government. Over thirty members working in HCCSS travelled from across Ontario to bargain a fair wage reopener…

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Cuts to international student admissions miss the real problems causing the crisis for public universities in Ontario

Solidarity, University

OTTAWA, ON – A 50 percent cut in the number of international students, announced today by the federal government, does nothing to deal with the underlying causes of the crisis unfolding in public universities across Ontario. What it will do is increase dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric that is being fanned by right-wing politicians across the country,…

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