Toronto, ON – CUPE Ontario gathered today in front of Doug Ford’s constituency office to protest cuts to WSIB and to address issues facing workers’ health and safety in Ontario. “These cuts need to stop,” stated Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario. “We need to support workers’ health and safety so that we can strengthen…
WINDSOR, ON— Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario has brought their Communities not Cuts campaign to Windsor today to speak to over 400 health care workers and paramedics. This province-wide initiative brings together public sector workers and communities in a fightback against the Ford Conservative government’s all out attack on Ontario’s public services and the…
TORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario announced today their Communities not Cuts campaign. This province-wide initiative brings together public sector workers and communities in a fightback against the Ford Conservative government’s all out attack on Ontario’s public services and the workers who provide them. “Every community, every type of work we do, every service Ontarians rely…
Guelph, ON – After a year of bargaining, and right as workers have begun building momentum towards a fair and necessary deal, Community Living Guelph Wellington (CLGW) has cried poverty and announced closures and layoffs that will hurt workers, people supported, and families. The more than 450 frontline developmental service workers in the Canadian Union…
Building POWER in our COMMUNITIES: Exploring Options for Community Safety Activist Training Series – Session #5 – March 3, 2021, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Join the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and CUPE Ontario for our…
TORONTO, ON – Since December 14, 1990, when the UN General Assembly proclaimed October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons this has been a key date for older persons across Ontario. In Canada and around the world, demographics are shifting. The rapid increase of older persons within Ontario communities is creating a much…
TORONTO, ON – Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will join other advocates and allies of the province’s children at the “No Cuts to Education – United We Resist” rally, which will take from 5 to 8 p.m. today (Wednesday) at the Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke. Education activists from unions, parent…
TORONTO, ON – Doug Ford’s decision to eliminate the office of the French Language Services Commissioner and Ontario’s planned Francophone University represent an attack on the rights of Franco-Ontarians, says CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn. “These services and protections are how French language rights are realized in our province. This decision by Ford’s government is…
TORONTO, ON – Today at Queen’s Park, the Keep Hydro Public campaign unveiled the look for a new phase in the fight to stop privatization of Hydro One. “An overwhelming majority of Ontarians are angry about the Liberal’s planned hydro sell-off. This new phase in the campaign will help people already organizing in communities across…
