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Hospital staff protest pandemic pay premium
Thousands of health care workers demonstrated outside Ontario hospitals Thursday, protesting the Ford government’s pandemic pay raise. That’s because not everyone is considered eligible for the four...
View ArticleInternational Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Sunday, May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Today we rededicate ourselves to the struggle for LGBTQ2S+ rights in Canada and around the world. We also reflect...
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Ontario is failing to protect heath-care workers
CUPE registered practical nurses Pam Parks, Judy Bain, and Maggie Jewell lay out what health care workers need in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis: There are painted rocks, flower bouquets and...
View Article“All workers need paid sick leave now”: CUPE Ontario participates in Day of...
While CUPE Ontario’s 280,000 members have always known how important paid sick leave is, this crisis has made that clearer than ever. On Thursday, May 21, our union is therefore proud to participate...
View ArticleIncreasing testing and contact tracing will keep us safe and create jobs:...
(TORONTO, ON) The Province of Ontario must immediately ramp up testing and contact tracing to ensure safety and create jobs, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. Today, Ontario...
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Report of abuse in Ontario nursing homes shocks provincial officials, but not...
Candace Rennick, Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario and a former personal support worker, said front-line workers had also been raising similar issues for years and getting ignored. “Nothing in that...
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Soldiers deployed to shore up staffing at Ontario long-term care homes have...
At the 13 minute mark, CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick describes the systemic flaws in long-term care we've been pointing out for years—where peoples' lives are undervalued and...
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The Premier is promising accountability after members of the military...
At the 3:45 mark, CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick shares our union's anguish and frustration with the situation in long-term care: "We've been ringing the alarm bells about the...
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The future of long-term care in Ontario
CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick weighs in on why why it took a military report to get action when long-term care advocates have been demanding a new standard of care for years on CBC...
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Reaction to the report by the Canadian Armed Forces of appalling conditions...
Listen in to Candace Rennick offer our union's reaction and corroborate the devastating report by the Canadian Armed Forces of appalling conditions in some of the province's long term-care facilities...
View ArticleCUPE members mourn the loss of another front-line health care worker
CUPE members are mourning the death of another front-line health care worker from a long-term care facility. We offer our deepest condolences to the family and colleagues of the deceased. This is...
View Article“Other ways of living and loving are possible”: CUPE Ontario statement on...
Anti-Black racism is overwhelmingly present - sometimes surfacing suddenly; always systemic; consistently and needlessly burdening Black people everywhere. In this difficult moment when the worst of...
View Article“During a pandemic, and always, injured workers deserve better”: CUPE...
Every year, on June 1, injured workers and allies gather at Queen’s Park for Injured Workers’ Day to celebrate a history of resistance, and collectively recommit to fighting for much-needed...
View ArticleYoung Workers Have the Most to Lose If OMERS Scraps Guaranteed Indexing
Young workers are the most impacted by the OMERS proposal to eliminate guaranteed indexing. We have the most to lose. Indexing is like getting an annual raise in retirement. It protects our pensions...
View ArticleIndigenous History Month 2020
June is Indigenous History Month, a time to celebrate the history, heritage, and diversity of Indigenous communities. This month also marks the 24th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day,...
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