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World Aids Day Statement
December 1 marks World AIDS Day and the beginning of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week in Canada. Today we remember the millions of people who have died as a result of AIDS both in Canada and around the...
View ArticleStatement for International Day for Disabled Persons 2018
The International Day for Disabled Persons is held every December 3rd, and it provides an opportunity to both celebrate the many accomplishments of people with disabilities, as well as to reflect on...
View ArticleNew Conservative Bill set to damage Ontario’s democracy, demolish...
TORONTO, ON – A new omnibus Bill being fast tracked through the Ontario legislature will bring in sweeping changes that will corrupt our democracy and make it easier for big corporations to influence...
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CUPE Ontario issued the following statement in regard to the action taking...
Two hundred and sixty thousand CUPE members, represented in the province by CUPE Ontario, are proud to support Canada’s postal workers as they fight the breach of their right to collective bargaining,...
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Statement on National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Every December 6, CUPE Ontario members recognize the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. 2018 marks the 29th anniversary of the tragic events that took place at l’École...
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Statement on National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Every December 6, CUPE Ontario members recognize the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. 2018 marks the 29th anniversary of the tragic events that took place at l’École...
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Statement on International Human Rights Day
On December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rights enshrined in that declaration – among them them the right to seek asylum from...
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Urgent Action Needed to Ensure Indigenous Women Are Not Sterilized Without...
(December 10, 2018) Across Canada and as recently as 2017, Indigenous women report being forcibly or coercively sterilized. Some women were incorrectly told the procedure is reversible. Others were...
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Ford Conservatives’ latest attack on workers’ constitutional rights sets...
Toronto, ON (December 17, 2018) – The Ford Conservatives’ extraordinary decision to recall the Ontario legislature and force power workers “back-to-work” when they are not even on strike represents a...
View ArticleMembers of CUPE Local 966 donate $3,500 to Mississauga Food Bank
MISSISSAUGA, ON – Representatives of CUPE Local 966, representing 3,500 workers in Peel Region, will visit the Mississauga Food Bank on Tuesday, December 18th, to donate $3,500 to the food bank’s...
View Article2018: A Year of Solidarity – A Message from Fred Hahn and Candace Rennick
As 2018 draws to a close, many of us are taking a well-earned break from work to spend time with family. While we do, let’s not forget the members of our union who work over the holidays to look after...
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CUPE Ontario Members Stand in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en First Nation
CUPE Ontario members stand in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and activists at the Unist’ot’en Camp defending their territory and the environment against big oil and right-wing...
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CUPE Ontario stands with General Motors workers in Oshawa
CUPE Ontario stands strongly with the more than 2,500 General Motors (GM) workers in their fight to save their jobs in Oshawa, says the union’s president, Fred Hahn. “GM’s decision to close their...
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Sudbury laundry workers recognized Friday for continued commitment to public...
SUDBURY, ON – Despite significant job losses to a hospital laundry in southern Ontario and the near closure of their workplace, Giselle Dawson and the remaining Sudbury Hospital Laundry workers...
View ArticlePembroke hospital staff recognized on Tuesday for continued commitment to...
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...
View ArticleRoyal Ottawa staff recognized on Wednesday for continued commitment to public...
OTTAWA, ON – Over the last few years, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 942 at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, have often boarded buses at the crack of dawn to join...
View ArticleKingston shut out of budget hearings, but hospital union holds media...
KINGSTON, ON – On Monday, provincial budget hearings begin in eight communities across Ontario. However, Kingston isn’t one of them. That’s why the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1974,...
View ArticleCut to LHINs cynical optics for PCs, when focus should be proper funding for...
TORONTO, ON – With reports that Ontario’s PC government is moving to chop the province’s health planning networks (Local Health Integration Networks or LHINs), the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions...
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A bad day for students: funding cut disguised as tuition cut, will cost...
TORONTO, ON – Doug Ford’s PC government has announced an unprecedented round of deep cuts to Ontario Universities, the conversion of student grants to loans, and an attack on student democracy on...
View ArticlePrice for deficit slaying, further tax cuts for the wealthy will be paid with...
KINGSTON, ON – Kingston’s largest health care union, today, called on the Ontario government to shelve its proposed revenue cuts and fund Ontario hospitals at their real costs. The call comes just...
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