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CUPE is Ontario’s union for long-term care workers.  Talk to an organizer today and learn how we can help you build a stronger, more secure workplace.

 

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Workers in more than 240 retirement and long-term care facilities in Ontario are CUPE members. Over the year’s we’ve won many important victories for long-term care workers and residents, and it’s time for workers at Glen Hill to get the wages, working conditions and respect you deserve.

Durham Christian Homes is union busting

Glen Hill is owned and operated by Durham Christian Homes (DCH).  DCH also used to operate Marnwood in Bowmanville and workers there were represented by CUPE. 

When DCH decided to close Marnwood and build Glen Hill, they also had the opportunity to move all their longstanding, dedicated workers from Marnwood to Glen Hill, to recognize CUPE as the union representing workers at Glen Hill and to honour the Collective Agreement the parties had negotiated in good faith.

Instead, DCH used the move as an opportunity contract out work and strip away wages and benefits that had been negotiated over decades.  Durham Christian Homes refused to recognize CUPE as the union representing workers at the new Glen Hill build unless CUPE agreed to concessions including lower wages for new hires.  CUPE could not do this because it would have hurt workers for many years to come.

Two-tier treatment of workers

Workers at Glen Hill are now non-union and DCH is paying newly hired workers less than those transferred from Marnwood.  It is unacceptable that co-workers, working side by side doing the same work, should make different rates of pay.  In addition, DCH has frozen the wages of those making the higher rates, until the ‘new hires’ wages catch up. Without a strong union to fight back, this mans wage freezes for 8 years.

Can CUPE help?

Yes. 

Workers should not have to work side-by-side, doing the same work for a different rate of pay or have wait several years for a wage increase. This is not acceptable. As a worker at Glen Hill, you deserve wages and working conditions that reflect the essential frontline work you do. There has never been a time where this has been more evident then now.  

CUPE can negotiate the wages, benefits and working conditions that workers at Marnwood used to enjoy, because through bargaining, CUPE can show an interest arbitration board the superior rates of pay and working conditions workers had at Marnwood before DCH started their union-busting tactics.

Sign a card today

If you want CUPE to represent you at Glen Hill you can sign a CUPE membership card at http://bit.ly/3tRnn26 or email cupeontarioorganizer@cupe.ca and a membership card will be mailed to you.

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