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The Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee represents more than 30,000 CUPE members working in the university sector. OUWCC coordinates bargaining and province-wide political action on issues facing university workers.
The goal of the OUWCC is to unify university workers in Ontario and leverage our collective power to strengthen public post-secondary education and improve workers’ lives.
There are 39 CUPE locals on 17 university campuses across Ontario. Our membership includes both support and academic workers, such as: parking, skilled trades, clerical and administrative positions, caretaking, food services, grounds keeping, research, technical and library workers, sessional instructors, teaching assistants, post-doctoral students and workers in student unions, student-run services and student-run businesses. Most work directly for a university, although some of our members work for contractors on campuses.
OUWCC Executive 2018-2019
Chair: Janice Folk-Dawson (Local 1334
Vice-Chair: David Simao (Local 1281)
Recording Secretary: Laura Maclure (Local 1334)
Health and Safety Representative, Trades Representative: Steve Pepper (Local 2361)
Employment Equity Representative: Jess Taylor (Local 3902)
Injured Worker Representative: Kathleen Webster (Local 2361)
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Upcoming Events
Ottawa – Tuesday, January 22
Emergency Rally: For AfFORDable Education
Windsor – Thursday, January 24
Rally for Affordable & Accessible Education
Brantford – Thursday, January 24
Toronto – Friday, January 25
London – Friday, January 25
Ottawa – Monday, January 28
What We Do
WTF? Where’s the Funding?
It’s time to hold University administrations in Ontario to account! It’s time to ask: WHERE’S THE FUNDING?
Campaigns and Events
- WTF Campaign
- Member Action
- No Hate on Campus
- Mental Health Matters
- End Precarious Work
- Dine-in: Bring Food Services Back In-House!
- Tell U of S: Paws off our Pension
- CUPE 3902: Precarious Situation
- Stop Workplace Sexual Violence
It’s time to hold University administrations in Ontario to account! It’s time to ask:
WHERE’S THE FUNDING?
Across Ontario, CUPE members support positive learning environments. We work as educators, we work to maintain buildings and systems on campus, and we work to create safe and healthy universities.
CUPE opposes all forms of discrimination and oppression. This campaign fights the rising tide of hate and intolerance on our campuses by mobilizing against hateful acts, promoting inclusivity and diversity, and educating students and workers about how to be better allies.
Health and safety at work includes mental health. This campaign seeks to de-stigmatize mental health in our union, raise awareness about the supports our members and families desperately need and make gains at the bargaining table.
This is a campaign to defend good jobs and high-quality education. As many as half of the university and college workforce are employed in precarious conditions in which workers experience temporary contracts, unpredictable hours and low wages. Precarious work is not inevitable. It is a choice made by employers and encouraged by government underfunding. We will collect and analyze data on our membership in order to craft bold solutions for bargaining improvements, and we will organize non-union workers on campus.
Students and workers need quality, affordable and healthy food options on campus. Food service workers deserve job security, high health and safety standards, and decent wages and benefits. This campaign presents the case to end contracting out of food services on campus and bring it back in-house.
For decades, CUPE 1975 and the University of Saskatchewan have negotiated changes to the pension plan at the bargaining table.
But now the University wants to leave workers out of the conversation about their retirement security.
The U of S is threatening to make unilateral cuts to the pension plan outside of the collective bargaining table – even though the Local is currently in bargaining. The Employer has stated that it plans to close the benefit pension plan and unnecessarily impose an inferior Defined Contribution (DC) pension plan in its place.
Local 1975 is currently in collective bargaining, hoping to resolve this issue and preserve both their defined benefit pension plan and their right to determine any pension plan changes at the bargaining table. Talks, however, have reached an impasse and a provincial conciliator has been appointed. The Local has a strong strike mandate from its members.
Like all workers, Local 1975 members deserve a decent and secure retirement after a career of work. Like all workers, Local 1975 members deserve to be able to bargain the terms and conditions of their employment, instead of having them imposed unilaterally by an Employer.
Send a message to the University of Saskatchewan and tell them to take their paws off our pension.
Precarious Situation is a campaign coming out of the work of a team of dedicated Unit 3 members called The Precarity Working Group. Upon the conclusion of Unit 3 bargaining in 2017, the bargaining team was unable to make large headway on developing a clear path towards permanent work for employees working on precarious contracts. The University of Toronto was not even interested in forming a working group, so Unit 3 members decided that they would develop their own working group dedicated to research, mobilization, and member education around the precarious situation of contract academic workers on campus.
Check out the website at http://precarity.cupe3902.org/
In order to better understand what is happening across the country and whether there are additional tools and resources that CUPE National can offer the post-secondary sector that will help CUPE members to navigate the process of dealing with incidents of sexual violence and harassment, we are asking CUPE post-secondary members to fill out this short, informal survey.
Campus Representatives
- Brock University
- Carleton University
- Guelph University
- Lakehead University
- McMaster University
- University of Ottawa
- Queens University
- Ryerson University
- Trent University
- University of Toronto
- Waterloo University
- Western University
- Wilfred Laurier University
- University of Windsor
- York University
- Thornloe University
- Laurentian University
Brad Worden (Local 1295)
Local 1295
Local 4207
Local 2220
Jerrett Clark (Local 2424)
Local 910
Local 2424
Local 3778
Local 4600
Local 3011
Laura Maclure (Local 1334)
Local 1334
Local 3913
Local 1281
Vacant
Local 3905
Richard Mah / Liam Midzain-Gobin (local 3906)
Local 3906
Local 1281
Vacant
Local 2626
Local 1281
Rosie Sardinha (Local 229)
Local 1302
Local 229
Local 254
Rob Bajko / Kelly Train (Local 3904)
Local 233
Local 3904
Local 1281
David Hollands (Local 3908)
Local 3908
Local 3205
Local 1281
David Vieira (Local 3261)
Local 1230
Local 1281
Local 3261
Local 3902
Local 3907
Doug Turnbull (Local 793)
Local 793
Local 1281
Cheryl Senay (Local 2692)
Local 2361
Local 2692
Vacant
Local 926
Daria Millenkovic (Local 1393)
Local 1001
Local 1393
Local 4580
Local 1281
Colleen Ferreira
Local 1356
Local 3903
Local 1281
Vacant
Local 895-2
Vacant
Local 5011
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