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Overcooked meats that are hard to chew. Processed, stale bread. Bland recipes supplemented with low-quality condiments. These are common complaints about food in Ontario’s long-term care homes. Although government underfunding contributes to quality concerns, many long-term care homes contract out food services to companies that prioritize profits over residents’ needs. Contractors tend to prepare limited options […]

Halifax-area school support staff including Assistive Technology Support Workers, Child and Youth Care Practitioners, Mi’kmaq and Indigenous Student Support Workers, African Nova Scotian School Support Workers, Schools Plus Community Outreach Workers, Educational Program Assistants, Early Childhood Educators and School Library Specialists have withdrawn services as of 12:01 AM Wednesday. “We’re very disappointed. We came back to the

A long-awaited legal judgment has been hailed as a major victory for both workers and passenger safety by the union that represents electrical, signals and communication workers at the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). A judgment handed down yesterday by Justice Chalmers of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found that the TTC Act, passed in 2011,

Early childhood educators (ECEs) and assistant teachers at Selwyn Community Childcare Centre have ratified a new four-year collective agreement. The tentative deal was reached on the final night of bargaining before a strike was set to begin following months of an impasse. These early years professionals are members of CUPE Local 2484, Toronto’s child care union

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

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

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

Unpaid work won’t fly. That’s the message that hundreds of CUPE flight attendants and supporters brought to events at airports in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal on Tuesday as part of a National Day of Action against the widespread abuse of unpaid work in the airline industry. “Our members are tired of working a 10- or

At a noon rally today at Toronto Metropolitan University, striking custodial and maintenance workers were clear in their message – they are strongly united in their campaign for fair wages and a say in their pension, despite insults and misinformation coming from administration. The week began with TMU President Mohamed Lachemi crossing the picket line and

On the eve of their fourth week on strike, developmental service workers have reached a tentative agreement with Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet. “I am proud of my coworkers and the strength of our Union,” said CUPE 2276 Vice President Cassie Bisson. “The work we do can be invisible to so many. But we weren’t willing to