Photo credit: Alex Lisman/Team Ignite OFL 2023 CUPE Ontario’s executive board is pleased to announce its endorsement of Laura Walton, Ahmad Gaied, and Jackie Taylor, members of Team Ignite, for officers’ positions on the executive of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). “Team Ignite is made up of three incredible labour leaders and we at CUPE Ontario […]
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CUPE joined the Canadian Labour Congress and the disability community on June 22, 2023 in celebrating royal assent for Bill C-22, which will establish the new Canada Disability Benefit. The benefit, the first of its kind at the federal level, will provide financial support to low-income working-age persons with disabilities. However, the framework for this new benefit
CUPE President Mark Hancock and Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick today brought messages of solidarity to Fraser Valley transit workers from the union’s 715,000 workers across Canada, visiting CUPE 561’s picket lines in Burnaby, Chilliwack and Abbotsford on Day 108 of their strike for fair wages and retirement security. Rennick, visiting the Lougheed Station picket line, also
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The thirty or so blue- and white-collar employees with the Municipality of Oka located in the Deux-Montagnes RCM in the Laurentian region finally have their first collective agreement, which was signed today by representatives of the union and the municipality. This first contract, which runs for slightly more than five years, calls for wage hikes totalling
Nearly 500 front-line child protection workers and support staff, members of the CUPE 2316, have ratified a new contract with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST). While the deal averts a strike that was set to begin late last week, it does little to settle a sector struggling with burnt-out workers and unsafe conditions