Join CUPE Ontario leaders, staff, and experts for a Zoom webinar about COVID-19 vaccines at 6:30pm next Monday, February 1st. We know there are a lot of questions about vaccines, including questions about safety, effectiveness, and your obligations in the workplace. This call is open to all CUPE Ontario members and will provide an opportunity to ask those questions and debunk vaccine myths. Please note we will be offering simultaneous French interpretation and ASL.
CUPE Local 786 Members Please read the letter from our President found below.
Dear Minister Elliott, I write as President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/Canadian Union of Public Employees (“OCHU/CUPE”), which represents 40,000 hospital and long-term care home workers across Ontario, including RPNs, clerical staff, porters and cleaners. These are some of the most underpaid and vulnerable workers on the front line battling against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ford's vaccine rollout is deeply disturbing. Call your MPP. Write to your local paper. Share this report with your local and friends: Ontario seniors who live independently feel shut out by COVID-19 vaccine rollout Take care, stay safe (and send me your letters. I'll post them on our retirees page*!).
Information for RPN’s from OCHU - OCHU Submission to CNO on behalf of RPN’s
CUPE Local 786 Virtual General Membership Meeting - Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 @7:30pm
The work of addressing and challenging anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism in our communities is something we must also do in our own union. When CUPE Ontario’s Anti-Racism Organizational Action Plan (AROAP) was adopted by members at our Convention, the goal was to root out these forms of racism in CUPE Ontario by identifying the practices and policies that act as barriers to participation for racialized and indigenous members.
Join us on Wednesday, January 20 at 6:00pm for the launch of the toolkit, We Believe You: Sexual Violence in Union Spaces. This toolkit follows a CUPE Ontario resolution passed at the 2016 Convention calling on CUPE Ontario to address sexual violence when it happens within our own union. The toolkit gives information about sexual violence, resources, and advice about handling disclosures.
CUPE Local 786 will be accepting participants for the by law committee until February 2nd, 2021.
HAMILTON, ON – With a flurry of new COVID-19 outbreaks in Hamilton hospitals, long-term care, and retirement homes this weekend - bringing the total to 36 outbreaks locally - today area hospital union leaders urged the province to include the region as a vaccination priority area.