Ontario NDP supports union fight against Bill 124, which limits public sector wage increases to 1% annually Groups representing thousands of public sector employees will be going up against the Ontario government in court this week as the two sides argue over a law that has capped wages for workers. The groups are challenging the…
DetailsRight Honorable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A2 [email protected] Honorable Sean Fraser Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Confederation Building, Suite 110 House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6 [email protected] Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Fraser, On behalf of the members of CUPE Ontario, we are writing…
DetailsThis Labour Day, we’re celebrating working people rising to the challenge Every day, working people in Ontario live the reality of the ominous headlines: runaway inflation, wages that can’t keep up, a global pandemic, crisis in health care, and a provincial government that is hell-bent on making life worse for anyone who isn’t one of…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – At a press conference held today, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE), and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced they are escalating their call for the Ontario Human Rights Commission to launch a formal inquiry into systemic discrimination in the provision of health care…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – As most students prepare to go back to school next week and with pressure on parents to spend even more out of their own pockets on everything from school supplies to the skyrocketing costs of food and rent, Ontario’s 55,000 frontline education workers are using bargaining for their next collective agreement to…
DetailsTORONTO, ON – Today 55,000 education workers who are members of CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) filed for conciliation. The following is a statement from Laura Walton, an educational assistant and the president of CUPE’s OSBCU: “Since June 3 when we served notice to bargain our next collective agreement with the Council…
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CUPE is calling for the Ford government to reverse a controversial decision to start moving elderly people and those with disabilities from hospitals to long-term care homes. In a release, CUPE says that emergency rooms and intensive care units are shutting down province wide because of inadequate staffing, not because of “the inability to coerce…
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Canada’s largest labour union is accusing the Ontario government of “scapegoating” elderly people with a plan to force them into long-term care homes as a way of fixing the province’s health-care crisis. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 90,000 health-care workers in Ontario, called on the province Friday to scrap its proposed Bill…
DetailsToronto, ON – The Ford Conservatives’ plan to forcibly move elders and people with disabilities from hospitals to long-term care homes does nothing to address the healthcare crisis and in fact worsens it, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). “ER and ICU closures, and backlogs of surgeries, are happening because of a snowballing…
DetailsToronto, ON — Front-line health care workers with CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) joined New Democratic Party (NDP) health critic France Gélinas for an announcement reintroducing a much-needed Bill to protect health care workers who speak out about violence in their workplace. The Bill will be re-tabled by Gelinas in the legislature in…
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