Jun 1, 2020 | Main page news, Newsfeeed
CUPE CALLS FOR SOLIDARITY IN THE FACE OF RACISM AND VIOLENCE As more disturbing images and video footage of racism, white supremacy and violence emerge from the United States and Canada, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) wants to offer our solidarity to...
May 21, 2020 | Main page news, Newsfeeed
CUPE National President Mark Hancock wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, calling on him to fix Canada’s broken long-term care system now. CUPE represents 65,000 workers in long-term care across Canada, and Hancock has pledged to fight to improve their...
May 14, 2020 | Main page news, Newsfeeed
On may 12th the Ford Government enacted a regulation that gives them the authority to appoint someone to manage or to help manage a long-term care home in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak. The Regulation does not transfer ownership of the long-term care home to the...
May 6, 2020 | Main page news, Newsfeeed
Public universal long-term care now • Le moment est venu de mettre en place des soins de longue durée publics universels Amanda Vyce, CUPE researcher, and Lou Black, HEU researcher, testified to the parliamentary Health Care Committee yesterday on the importance of...
May 5, 2020 | Main page news
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Ontario, 2892 healthcare workers have been infected with COVID-19. Those on the healthcare front lines now account for 15.8 percent of the province’s COVID cases. The number is trending up, not down. Four of them have died. On...
May 5, 2020 | Main page news, Newsfeeed
Thousands of workers across Ontario are putting themselves at risk to deliver the vital public services our communities depend on during the COVID-19 pandemic. But many were excluded from recent pandemic pay increases announced by the Ford Conservatives. Follow this...
