U of T Campus Unions to hold 11 a.m. news conference tomorrow to discuss...
TORONTO, ON – Following a lengthy delay, the University of Toronto’s (U of T) panel reviewing its asbestos management program released its Asbestos Panel Review Report late last month, along with a...
View ArticleStill way short on beds, PC announce a 10% cut to real hospital capacity
TORONTO, ON - With Ontario’s population growing and aging, today’s announcement by the PC government for 3000 more hospital beds over ten years, patients can unfortunately expect hallway medicine to...
View ArticleEarth Day 2019
On Earth Day 2019, it is more important than ever that CUPE Ontario join with other unions, communities, businesses and governments to support strong efforts to address the devastating effects of...
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Ford’s $1 billion public health cut puts Torontonians’ safety at risk; will...
TORONTO, ON – Premier Doug Ford’s massive cut to public health funding, which will impact outbreak and infection control, drinking water testing, vaccination rates and fuel hallway medicine, can only...
View ArticleBrant Family and Children’s Services’ workers to deliver message to MPP Will...
BRANTFORD, ON – Workers at Brant Family and Children’s Services (FACS) are hand-delivering a message to MPP Will Bouma after he backed out of a proposed meeting with the union to discuss recent...
View ArticleFord government’s cuts to GSN funding signal drastic drop in services for...
TORONTO, ON – The union that represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario schools is calling today’s release of the 2019-20 Grants for Student Needs (GSNs) by the Ministry of Education “an attack on...
View ArticleAfter Ford government decimates Northern Ontario library service, CUPE 4705...
SUDBURY, ON – After watching the elimination of more than half of the positions of an agency that enhances the quality of libraries across the province, the president of Local 4705 of the Canadian...
View ArticleDay of Mourning
April 28 is the National Day of Mourning for workers killed or Injured on the Job. On this day, we take time to remember the workers we have lost. CUPE Ontario also uses the occasion to join with...
View ArticleIn PC-held Ottawa, Renfrew, Pembroke, Glengarry ridings, 71% don’t support...
OTTAWA, ON – 71% of the more than 1,500 residents polled in PC-held ridings in Ottawa, Glengarry, Renfrew and Pembroke say they don’t support the massive changes the PCs are planning to make to the...
View ArticleInstructors join TCDSB trustees, students and parents at Queen’s Park in...
TORONTO, ON – Thirty international language instructors with the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) will take part in a different kind of lesson on Thursday morning, May 2, as they begin...
View ArticleFord government putting students at risk with $3 million in cuts to Lakehead...
THUNDER BAY, ON – Last Friday’s announcement of the government’s cuts to education funding has left some education workers at Lakehead District School Board (LDSB) fearing the worst for the safety of...
View ArticleCUPE Ontario proudly marks International Workers’ Day 2019
On May 1, CUPE Ontario joins with its friends, allies and workers around the world to honour the fight for an eight‑hour workday, and to call for decent work, dignity and respect. We are proud to...
View ArticlePremier Ford said no one would lose their job; tell that to dozens of St....
TORONTO, ON – Despite Premier Doug Ford’s repeated promise that, under his government, no public sector workers would lose their jobs, dozens of clerical staff at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital have...
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First Responders Day
This year, on May 1st, CUPE Ontario and the CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario (CACO) are again recognizing First Responders Day. We would like to express our immense pride in the commitment and...
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Dozens of St. Mike’s hospital clerical staff laid off with 2 weeks’ notice;...
TORONTO, ON – Dozens of clerical staff at St. Mike’s, St. Joseph’s and Providence – Toronto’s most recent hospitals to undergo restructuring – have been laid off, many with two weeks’ notice, in...
View ArticleGoal is to preserve and enhance services for students, say education workers...
TORONTO, ON – As school boards across Ontario suffer deep and destructive cuts at the hands of the provincial government, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 55,000 education...
View ArticleDoug Ford’s fixation on Toronto politics will result in transit bedlam for...
TORONTO, ON – The Ontario government’s Getting Ontario Moving Act, which gives the province ownership over future transit expansion in Toronto, is an irresponsible move that won’t deliver the transit...
View ArticleYes, there’s opposition in Kenora to the PC health system overhaul: Poll...
KENORA, ON – Polling that surveys Kenora residents about the massive changes the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government is planning to make to the province’s health system is being released on...
View ArticleIn PC-held Kenora-Rainy River, 75% don’t support Ford government health...
KENORA, ON – Kenora-Rainy River residents polled say they don’t support the massive changes the PCs are planning to make to the province’s health system. More than 300 Kenora area residents who...
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In the face of dire funding cuts, Ontario paramedics ask: “Will there be an...
TORONTO, ON – In the week since the Ford government announced it is freezing land ambulance grants at 2017-2018 levels, municipalities have been scrambling to sort out the full impact of what could be...
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