CUPE ONTARIO

CUPE Ontario

• Take the survey: Add your voice to help protect the Greenbelt and repeal Doug Ford’s Bill 23 February 3, 2023
  In November, the provincial government passed Bill 23, a legislation that will starve municipalities of funding, harm our environment, and worsen the housing crisis. The stated purpose of Bill 23, Build Homes Faster Act is to make housing more attainable by increasing supply. However, the legislation serves for-profit developers’ interests by redefining “affordable housing,” making it easier […]
  Alisha Sharma
• “We’re ready to strike because we deserve better wages now”: Markham Public Library workers approach a February 10 strike date February 2, 2023
  (Markham, ON) - Markham Public Library workers, members of CUPE Local 905, are preparing to walk off the job on February 10th. The 163 librarians, library services associates, digital library specialists, and borrow services staff at Markham Public Library overwhelmingly voted against a proposed deal from the City of Markham, primarily due to insufficient wages […]
  Alisha Sharma
• CUPE Ontario Statement for Black History Month, February 2023 February 1, 2023
  CUPE Ontario is pleased to join Canadians everywhere in marking the start of Black History Month, four weeks devoted to recognizing and reflecting on the tremendous achievements of Black Canadians and Black people living in Canada. In a special tribute this year, Canada Post has issued a stamp commemorating Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black woman […]
  Sonya Yalda
• Big gains for new CUPE crossing guards will mean a safer walk to school for Toronto students January 30, 2023
  TORONTO, ON – The workers who keep Toronto’s most vulnerable pedestrians safe are now enjoying greater well-being themselves. The 386 crossing guards who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 5519 and employed by ASP Security Services voted last week to ratify their first collective agreement by an overwhelming majority with […]
  Alisha Sharma
• CUPE Ontario Statement for the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia on January 29 January 29, 2023
  January 29 represents a tragic and shocking day in Canadian history. On this day in 2017, there was a senseless attack on Muslim men at prayer in the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City: a gunman, driven by the hate-filled messages of Islamophobia and white supremacy, killed six people and inflicted serious injury on many […]
  Sonya Yalda
• CUPE Ontario’s Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2023 January 27, 2023
  On January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, CUPE Ontario observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day was designated by the United Nations to honour the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, victims of anti-Semitism, racism, and totalitarianism. Millions of others, including Ukrainians, Poles, Roma, people with […]
  Alisha Sharma
• OPEN LETTER RE: Ontario’s Health System at Risk January 24, 2023
                                                   The Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau                                                                                January 24, 2023 The Honourable Chrystia Freeland House of Commons, Canada OPEN LETTER RE: Ontario’s Health System at Risk  Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Deputy Prime […]
  Alisha Sharma
• “We do the same work – why aren’t we being paid the same”: Food service workers at Nipissing and Canadore College overwhelmingly vote in favour of a strike January 23, 2023
  (NORTH BAY, ON) - Minimum wage food service workers at North Bay’s Nipissing and Canadore College, members of CUPE Local 1165 Unit 7, voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike after seeing no movement on the issue of wage parity, said the union. “The contractor, Compass, pays food service workers at both Laurentian University and […]
  Alisha Sharma
• “Greedy and hypocritical”: Company owned by a pension plan is taking away its own workers’ pension plan January 23, 2023
  TORONTO – DynaLIFE Labs, a company contracted by the Alberta government to privatize health care services, is trying to take away a pension plan from its employees. The twist? DynaLIFE’s majority shareholder is the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), a pension plan serving over half a million Canadians. In 2022, Alberta’s UCP government awarded […]
  Alisha Sharma
• CUPE Ontario pledges cross-sector support for the fightback against Ford’s plans for health care privatization January 20, 2023
  TORONTO – CUPE Ontario has pledged its full support to the coalition of five major health unions, including CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE), as they gear up for a province-wide campaign of resistance to the Ford government’s “three-step plan” for privatizing hospital care services. “Our union will raise its voice on behalf of […]
  Alisha Sharma