Kerry’s Place workers in Peel and Wellington join CUPE
MARKHAM, ON – Developmental services workers from Kerry’s Place Autism Services in the Region of Peel, as well as the Belwood Home site in the County of Wellington, recently voted to join the Canadian...
View ArticleAs Ontario universities move to embrace ‘unkempt neglect,’ CUPE custodians...
TORONTO, ON – Fed up with employers who are embracing the lowest standards of cleanliness on campus, university custodians across Ontario are sounding the alarm. “Universities are embracing ‘unkempt...
View ArticleCUPE 543 hosts annual Thanksgiving Giveback on Friday, October 9 – 600...
WINDSOR, ON – On Friday, October 9, City of Windsor ‘inside’ municipal and public service workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 543, will give back to the Windsor...
View ArticlePeel board using United Way as bargaining ‘football’, charge CUPE education...
Union cites members’ unswerving support for charity in face of job action PEEL REGION, ON – Union leaders called on Peel school board’s director of education to stop using charitable activities as...
View ArticleUniversity of Guelph campus in ‘unkempt neglect,’ union claims
Guelph Mercury By Mercury staff GUELPH — The union representing custodial staff at the University of Guelph says the school has significantly reduced its cleaning budget and it has left the campus in...
View ArticleNorth Bay residents have two opportunities this Thursday, to join the...
NORTH BAY, ON – Dialing-in North Bay residents to a city-wide teleconference town hall on October 22, aimed at mounting a community campaign against drastic bed, service and care cuts at the regional...
View ArticleTown of Plympton-Wyoming triggers possible lockout of municipal workers –...
TOWN OF PLYMPTON-WYOMING, ON – The Town of Plympton-Wyoming could be without the services of the town’s roads maintenance and snow removal workers as early as October 27, as management could...
View ArticleCUPE Local 4948 celebrates Library Week in Toronto with buttons, postcards
TORONTO, ON – October 19-26 is Library Week in Ontario, and library workers for the Toronto Public Library City Hall Branch, members of Local 4948 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE...
View ArticleAlmonte hospital sees large spike in costly patient readmission rates as...
ALMONTE, ON – A media conference is planned for Friday, October 23, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in Almonte to release Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) data (from 2009-2014) that shows patient...
View ArticleCUPE commends Region of Waterloo for investing in public services
WATERLOO, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing front-line Waterloo public services workers, commends the Region of Waterloo for refusing to accept recommendations made by...
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We will not be bullied into a collective agreement, say CUPE education...
TORONTO, ON – Premier Wynne’s promise to grant requests from the Council of Trustees Association (CTA) to respond to job action by CUPE’s 55,000 education workers could make an already difficult...
View ArticleCUPE reaches tentative settlement with Town of Plympton-Wyoming
TOWN OF PLYMPTON-WYOMING, ON – The Town of Plympton-Wyoming municipal workers, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), reached a tentative settlement with their employer on...
View ArticleCity workers’ union decries layoffs, warns that cost-savings should not come...
SUDBURY, ON – The union representing over 1,600 workers at the City of Greater Sudbury is calling on Mayor Brian Bigger to reverse recent layoffs of cemetery workers and to halt plans for further...
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Solidarity with Quebec’s Common Front
CUPE Ontario stands together with the 400,000 workers in school boards, CÉGEPs, social services, health care and other public services who began rotating strikes across the province today. Workers in...
View ArticleEducation workers hold “Rally for Respect” in support of jobs, services, and...
After last week’s meeting between unions and government, CUPE members “more determined than ever” to fight for a fair collective agreement, say leaders TORONTO, ON – Education workers in nine school...
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Scathing report means Wynne must stop Hydro One sale before it becomes next...
TORONTO, ON – Today’s report by the province’s financial accountability officer should be the final nail in the coffin of the ill-conceived sell-off of Hydro One, said Fred Hahn, president of the...
View ArticleProvince’s bottom line worse off after Hydro One sale, warns Ontario’s budget...
remier Kathleen Wynne will leave the province’s finances “worse” off with the sale of Hydro One, warns Ontario’s new budget watchdog in a damning report. View this page in full on the CUPE Ontario...
View ArticleStrike ends tomorrow as Children’s Aid Society of Toronto and their Emergency...
TORONTO, ON – After three months on the picket line, the strike between the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) and their Emergency After Hours Staff (EAHS) workers, members of Local 2316.1 of...
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CUPE education workers reach tentative agreement with Crown and Council of...
TORONTO – The union representing 55,000 education workers in Ontario schools has reached a tentative deal with the Crown and the Council of Trustee Associations (CTA) in central talks. The union is...
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Solidarity with OSSTF education workers
TORONTO, ON – CUPE Ontario, the province’s largest union, supports education workers in the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) in their fight to secure a fair collective agreement...
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