Workers and businesses want more from Ontario’s paid sick days
“Every day we wait is a day that will damage our prospects of beating COVID.”–Fred Hahn Watch this segment on CityNews Toronto about why we need Paid Sick Days.
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Ontario asks Ottawa to administer sick leave benefit for workers amid third wave of COVID-19
The Ontario government is offering to double federal sick leave payments to $1,000 a week for workers in the province amid the surging COVID-19 pandemic – if Ottawa agrees to administer the program. In an April 22 letter to Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland, obtained by The Globe and Mail, Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said…
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Is Ontario’s paid sick leave program enough?
Watch CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn on a CP24 Toronto’s Breaking News panel discussing the Ford government’s inadequate paid sick day plan. “The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) published a poll last week that showed overwhelming support across all party lines for paid sick days, because people understand that it’s long past time that we…
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Ontario details plan for 3 paid sick days after a year of mounting pressure
According to the Opposition NDP, the vote marked the 25th time the Ford government has voted down a proposal for paid sick days in 2021 alone. In a statement reacting to the announcement, CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn said the Ford government had “chosen chaos and confusion” over delivering the type of program Ontarians truly need. “Everyone…
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President of CUPE Ontario on Ontario’s COVID-19 paid sick leave
CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn discusses the inadequacy of Ontario’s new paid sick leave program with Jeff McArthur on Global News Radio 640 and points out the hypocrisy of Doug Ford taking time out to self-isolate while denying that right to frontline workers: “Doug Ford has a privilege that hasn’t been afforded to hundreds of…
DetailsSubmission regarding Bill 276: An Act to Enact and Amend Various Acts
Submission regarding Bill 276: An Act to Enact and Amend Various Acts
Day 2 Convention Newsletter
“A historic opportunity” “This may be an historic crisis, but it’s also an historic opportunity to collectively make Ontario the best possible province it could be,” said Fred Hahn during the convention video that kicked off our first virtual convention. Also in this newsletter: Hopefulness despite the challenges; From the National Officers to Ontario; A democratic union’s…
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Pre-Convention Newsletter
CUPE Ontario’s 57th Annual Convention Begins. Over 1,000 delegates are getting together to build power. We’ve been through a lot the last year. We’ve lost loved ones and neighbours and we’ve witnessed our communities avoidably burdened instead of supported. But we’re getting through this because Public Services Save Lives and because, together, we’re building power…
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Health care resolutions call for end to for-profit LTC, privatization of patient care, and exploitation of racialized health care workers
In a year dominated by a pandemic, health care resolutions kicked off the policy and action plan debate at CUPE Ontario’s 57th annual convention. CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick urged delegates to support Resolution #55, calling for the Provincial government takeover of privately-owned and managed long-term care homes and the creation of a system that…
DetailsHealth and safety workers at IHSA target systemic sexism in collective agreement negotiations, trigger countdown to possible job action
Toronto, ON — Ontario’s construction, infrastructure, and transportation industries may come to a grinding halt by the mid of June, reports the Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU)/ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1750, whose employer rejected several proposals to address workplace barriers that prevent women from advancement, skill development, and participation in the…
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