With a recent poll showing that Ontario is at-risk of losing more than 60% of its registered practical nurses (RPNs) workforce, RPNs made an emotional appeal to the Doug Ford government to step up investments in wages and improved working conditions to stop thousands more from leaving nursing. The poll, conducted by Nanos Research of behalf […]
On May Day, custodial and maintenance workers at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) begin the third week of their historic strike. Their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 233 is marking the day with an unprecedented call for workers across the province to begin a full “donor boycott” against their employer until a
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Daniel Gawthrop | CUPE Staff According to the most recent RCMP report, 1,017 women and girls identified as Indigenous were murdered between 1980 and 2012 — a homicide rate roughly 4.5 times higher than that of all other women in Canada — and at least 105 Indigenous women and girls remained missing. These numbers, however, don’t take
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