30 October 2022

Education workers give five days’ strike notice

Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers have given five days’ notice of a potential province-wide strike as they remain united in their fight for student success and good jobs.
26 October 2022

Resounding strike vote shows that high-quality education needs high-quality academic jobs: McMaster TAs and RAs

Teaching assistants (TAs) and research assistants-in-lieu (RAs) at McMaster University delivered a historically high strike vote last week, demonstrating that they are united in their conviction that the best post-secondary education is one supported by good jobs for the 2500-plus student-academic workers on campus.
20 October 2022

Most incumbent Peel councillors, mayors disappoint on commitment to better resident care at regional LTC homes

With the municipal vote this coming Monday, CUPE 966 asked all regional council incumbents including the mayors about their commitment to better long-term care at Peel’s municipal homes. 
18 October 2022

CUPE Windsor-Essex paramedics call for more provincial funding to alleviate ambulance shortage crisis; endorse emergency declaration by Essex County

The provincial government needs to take decisive action and fund the solutions that will alleviate the ongoing crisis of ambulance shortages in Essex County, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2974.
14 October 2022

Education Workers to Enter Mediation in Pursuit of Student Success and Good Jobs

The central bargaining committee for Ontario’s lowest-paid frontline education workers will enter into mediation with the Ontario government and Council of Trustees’ Associations (CTA) on October 17.
14 October 2022

Les travailleurs et travailleuses de l’éducation entament la médiation dans la poursuite de la réussite des élèves et de bons emplois

TORONTO (ONTARIO) –/HEBDO-PRESSE/– Le 17 octobre, le Comité de négociation central des travailleurs […]
14 October 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: School support workers to rally at LaGrange’s office

School support workers and education supporters will hold a protest October 14 in front of the office of Red Deer North MLA Adriana LaGrange.
13 October 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: School support workers to rally at LaGrange’s office

School support workers and education supporters will hold a protest October 14 in front of the office of Red Deer North MLA Adriana LaGrange.
12 October 2022

Durham education workers near unanimous in strike vote amid stalled local talks

While two Durham-area school boards turn to unqualified staff to fill vacancies, education workers are united in their fight to improve schools, better serve students, and secure good jobs.
7 October 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario education workers to provide update on bargaining

CUPE’s Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) president Laura Walton will provide an update, via Zoom, about frontline education workers’ bargaining for student success and good jobs.
6 October 2022

CUPE 543 Windsor city workers to deliver Thanksgiving dinners today in partnership with Windsor-Essex food bank association

CUPE 543 city workers will be distributing gift hampers to individuals and families in need in Windsor this morning as part of a charity drive in partnership with the Windsor-Essex Food Bank Association.
3 October 2022

STATEMENT: Kenora Paramedics Union calls on all levels of government to invest in Northern Ontario

Derek Hamilton, president of CUPE 5911, and Nicole Runge, vice president of CUPE […]
30 September 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario education workers to release results of strike vote

Ontario’s 55,000 frontline education workers have been exercising their democratic rights as union members by taking part in their strike vote that opened on Friday, September 23 and will close on Sunday, October 2.
30 September 2022

AVIS MÉDIATIQUE : Les travailleurs et travailleuses de l’éducation de l’Ontario publieront les résultats du vote de grève

Les 55 000 travailleurs et travailleuses de l’éducation de première ligne de l’Ontario ont exercé leurs droits démocratiques en tant que syndiqué(e)s en participant au vote de grève qui a commencé le vendredi 23 septembre et qui se terminera le dimanche 2 octobre.
23 September 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ontario education workers to hold briefing about start of strike vote

Event Information Begins: 23 September 2022 @ 10:00 AMLocation: Toronto, ON (virtual) TORONTO, […]