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

Retirees' Semi-Annual Meeting CUPE Ontario will hold its next Virtual Retirees’ Meeting on November 10th from 1 - 2:30pm. Our 2-hour meeting will include: Updates from retiree reps at locals & district councils Model bylaw retiree amendments CUPE Ontario news Retiree amendment at [...]