October 24th, 2019 is the 19th annual Child Care Worker & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. This year’s theme is Champions for Children. Today we recognize and thank the dedicated, hardworking Child Care Workers and Early Childhood Educators who take care of our children across Ontario. They truly are Champions for Children. The tireless efforts…
The Ford Conservatives’ recent P3 $60billion dollar announcement syphons money away from communities in order to build and expand corporate profits. Infrastructure investment is desperately needed, but Ontarians understand that P3’s hurt communities, and they have been fighting against them for years. CUPE Ontario agrees with the people of Ontario and does not support a…
Support communities, not cuts. January 17, 2020 Victory! Thanks to the hard work of parents, families, front-line child care workers and allies. Peterborough City Council voted 9-2 in favour of a motion put forward by Councillor Kemi Akapo to keep Pearson and Peterborough Child Care Centres and before and after school programs open. Since the…
Dear CUPE Ontario members, Without Ontario’s labour movement, many of the advances our province has made toward becoming a more prosperous and fair society would not have happened. This Labour Day, we remember with gratitude the work of generations of trade unionists to advance the rights, working conditions and public services we enjoy today. But…
TORONTO – The Ford Conservatives’ unprecedented Cabinet shuffle, after only one year in office, will not improve their plummeting polling numbers or fix the problem of cuts to public services faced by Ontarians says the President of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. “People are angry about the massive cuts to public services,” said…
OTTAWA – The Migrant Rights Network, a new cross-Canada alliance to demand pro-migrant, anti-racist laws and policies, including permanent residence status for all, is launching today, the International Day for the Elimination of Racism (March 21). Communities are mobilizing in over a dozen cities from Halifax to Vancouver this week. The Migrant Rights Network’s formation…
TORONTO, ON – The contempt that the Ford government has shown to children with autism and their parents now extends to all children in Ontario’s public education system, said representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in the wake of today’s news of a province-wide school board hiring freeze. The union warns that such a…
PEMBROKE, ON – Over the last few years, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1502 at the Pembroke Regional Hospital, have often boarded buses at the crack of dawn to join thousands of like-minded defenders of public health care at several large ‘Stop the Cuts’ rallies across the province. On Tuesday…
TORONTO, ON – Following today’s decision by Justice Belobaba to strike down key portions of Bill 5, CUPE Ontario’s President Fred Hahn praised the thousands of Ontarians who took part in the campaign to protect local democracy. Bill 5 attempted to cut the size of Toronto city council by close to half months after…
A Labour Day message from CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick Labour unions play a critical role in our society. We are the protectors. Protectors of working people, protectors of our communities, and protectors of the public services we all need. We’re proud to work in coalition with others to demand better…
