The Ontario government is playing a lethal game of chance with a new pandemic guidance policy that lets hospitals and long-term care facilities order potentially sick or still infectious front-line staff with COVID-19 back to work, say two of Ontario’s largest unions who are trying to stop the practice and keep both workers and patients safe.
On behalf of CUPE’s Safe Spaces Working Group, we would like to invite you to share your feedback on violence and harassment in our union. We will be hosting 2 listening sessions on January 19 and 29. Any CUPE member is welcome to join.
Time-Limited Emergency Child Care: Effective immediately Emergency Child Care (ECC) is being made available for school-aged children of eligible front-line workers at no cost during the period when schools are operating remotely.
NDP leader Andrea Horwath, Liberal Party leader Steven Del Duca, and Green Party leader Mike Schreiner joined SEIU Healthcare president Sharleen Stewart and OCHU-CUPE president Michael Hurley in a media conference today calling on the Ford government to:
CUPE Local 786 Virtual General Membership Meeting - Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @7:30pm. View the agenda and get the virtual access link here.
Dear Brothers and Sisters, December 7th is the Day of Action - let's flood our social media with "Respect Us. Protect Us. Pay Us." stickers and signs!
1% a year for 3 years for public sector workers, 25% for CEO’s. While Ontario’s Bill 124 limits wage increases for public sector workers to no more than 1% a year for each of three years, an analysis of Sunshine list data shows that CEO’s in the public sector have given themselves 25% increases over the last 3 years.
Urgent Call for Ontarians who want to safeguard & improve our public health care for people not for profit. The Ford government is planning: - To give tens of thousands of long-term care beds to for-profit corp’s for the next 30-yrs - For-profit privatization of public hospital services including surgeries & diagnostics - To privatize the last remaining public parts of home care…. & more, unless we stop them
Ontario will not mandate vaccination for hospital workers. The decision will remain with each hospital on how to implement Directive 6 of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. It will be the policies of hospitals and their impacts on individuals that we will grieve if those impacts are arbitrary or discriminatory.
Court refuses to intervene in hospital vaccine policy. The Superior Court of Justice for Ontario, in a decision issued today, refused to accept the request from employees of the University Health Network to strike down the hospitals mandatory vaccination policy. CUPE intervened in this hearing and specifically