Strike continues as Peel CAS rejects union’s proposal for binding arbitration
MISSISSAUGA, ON – A nine-week long strike between the Children’s Aid Society of the Region of Peel (Peel CAS) and the union representing 435 front-line, administrative and support staff will continue...
View ArticleOpen letter to Education Minister Mitzie Hunter regarding ongoing school...
CUPE Ontario is a signatory to the Ontario Alliance Against School Closure's open letter to the Minister of Education, Mitzie Hunter, protesting ongoing school closures across the province. The text...
View ArticleCUPE Ontario statement of solidarity with Haudenosaunee harvesters
CUPE Ontario is Ontario’s community union. As Indigenous peoples and as settler-allies operating on colonized land, our union has a collective responsibility to recognize and honour the inherent...
View ArticleStriking Peel CAS workers continue to reject employer tactics, demand to...
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO - Members of the union representing 435 striking front-line, administrative and support staff at Children's Aid Society of the Region of Peel (Peel CAS) have overwhelmingly...
View ArticleDemoralized, bullied staff say “culture of fear” at Montfort Renaissance...
Ottawa, ON — Staff at Ottawa’s Montfort Renaissance who fear being targeted by management if they raise concerns say, that a provincial accreditation review of the agency taking place now, must...
View ArticleVICTORY! Board makes best choice for the community, keeps Cassellholme in...
North Bay, ON – Putting resident care quality first and keeping Cassellholme, the sole municipally-operated long-term care home in Nipissing in public hands, “is the best choice for the community....
View ArticleEssex Library Board needs to bargain and not dictate pre-determined terms, as...
ESSEX, ON – As the Essex County Library strike passes the 150-day mark, the striking library workers are urging the library board to return to the bargaining table with the full intention to conduct...
View ArticleCUPE stands with parents from across Ontario to protect community schools
TORONTO, ON – Local community schools are becoming yet another casualty of the broken funding formula that does not factor in the true cost of providing the quality education our children need, said...
View ArticleJoin Region of Peel CAS workers as MPPs address their 10-week strike at...
TORONTO, ON – Ontario MPPs will address Queen’s Park on Tuesday, November 22, in an attempt to break the deadlock in a strike between the Children’s Aid Society of the Region of Peel (Peel CAS) and...
View ArticleThe time for care standard in legislation for long-term care residents, is...
NORTH BAY, ON — Following tragic stories coming from several Ontario long-term care homes this month, there’s a renewed scrutiny on resident care quality and safety and “urgency make a daily 4 hour...
View ArticleStriking Peel CAS workers visit Queen’s Park with a message for government
TORONTO, ON – Striking workers from the Region of Peel Children’s Aid Society (Peel CAS) were at Queen’s Park today to ask the government to do what it can to break the deadlock in their ten-week-long...
View ArticleLegal Notice: Class action on behalf of CUPE employees transferred to CCACs...
This is a notice that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held a hearing and approved Minutes of Settlement signed by the Crown, CUPE and the Representative Plaintiff in a class action about the...
View ArticleHospital fingers Thibeault’s Liberals for loss of hospital laundry jobs Rally...
Sudbury, ON — Sudbury’s embattled MPP embroiled in election scandal has something new to answer for. At a meeting recently with laid off Sudbury hospital laundry workers, Health Sciences North (HSN)...
View ArticleThe time for care standard in legislation for long-term care residents, is...
SUDBURY, ON — Following tragic stories coming from several Ontario long-term care homes this month, there’s a renewed scrutiny on resident care quality and safety and “urgency make a daily 4 hour...
View ArticleMake care better, safer for long–term care residents, support legislation for...
NORTH BAY, ON — Improving care quality and safety for nearly 80,000 residents in long-term care homes requires the “political will and a non-partisan approach” by Ontario’s political parties to pass...
View ArticleMake care better, safer for long–term care residents, support legislation for...
SUDBURY, ON — Improving care quality and safety for nearly 80,000 residents in long-term care homes requires the “political will and a non-partisan approach” by Ontario’s political parties to pass...
View ArticleMessage from Fred & Candace: Celebrate our victory – we have more to come
Thanks to the great mobilizing work we’ve been able to do with the Our Hydro coalition and thanks to all the phone calls and emails that our members sent to their city councillors, Mayor John Tory has...
View ArticleProvincial Trades Conference asks Premier to kill Bill that hurts trades and...
Niagara Falls, ON – New legislation buried deep in the government’s omnibus budget measures Act, Bill 70, will hurt the integrity of skilled trades and put workers in danger and should be withdrawn...
View ArticleStriking Peel CAS workers try to break month-long deadlock with holidays...
MISSISSAUGA, ON – One month has passed since striking workers from Local 4914 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 4914) and management from Region of Peel Children’s Aid Society (Peel CAS)...
View ArticleHow can provincial Liberals do nothing for hospital laundry workers and give...
SUDBURY, ON — In a “cruel and cynical” political announcement and photo op, Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault recently offered money for jobs in mining, craft beer and film/TV production, but left soon to...
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