CUPE Ontario

Doug Ford is hosting his annual FordFest in Milton on Friday, August 16 to celebrate his so-called “accomplishments.”

Ford is getting it done – for CEOs, corporations, and the banks.

But for the rest of us, life is getting harder and more expensive in Ontario.

Join us and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) at FordFest and for his real accomplishments.

WHEN: August 16, 2024 from 4:00PM to 6:30PM

WHERE: The rally outside FordFest will take place on the north and south sides (on the grass) of the main entrance to Country Heritage Park, 8560 Tremaine Road, Milton

Bring your union flags, banners! Learn more here: https://ofl.ca/event/thankdougford-for-getting-it-done/

"In 2022 the Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reported that over the next 20 years Ford plans to spend $118 billion subsidizing hydro rates and would not be able to. The 2023 FAO report shows that by the next provincial election in 2026, Ford will have spent $56 billion artificially lowering artificially high hydro rates, never dealing with the problem.

Why would you care about electricity rates? You hit the switch and it’s on. This is the issue no party wants to talk about.

This is the issue that affects everyone including business. Business loves low cost, stability and predictability. For 94 years business in Ontario thrived and was very profitable under the low, stable and predictable rates of public power. Ever since the deregulated electricity market was opened 22 years ago, hydro rates have been unstable, unpredictable and very high for everyone and a very big contributor to the affordability crisis."

Read more from CUPE Ontario Retiree, Paul Kahnert, here:

Doug Ford’s big broken promise on lower hydro rates Doug Ford has promised to lower the cost of hydro electricity, but all he's done is use public money to subsidize the cost of the utility.

, don’t you know that you’re toxic. The Green Belt scandal continues to unravel, exposing deeper layers of shady dealings. When will the lying and gaslighting end?

Join us at FordFest on Aug 16 to confront him as he celebrates his so-called “accomplishments” that are making life harder for everyone except corporate landlords and billionaire friends. Find more details and download a “thanks for nothing” card: ofl.ca/events.

Join the struggle against legislated poverty at the Raise the Rates Coalition's virtual campaign launch, Sat, Aug 24 at 1pm.

Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program recipients are at a breaking point; our social security system is failing. Let's make raising social assistance rates an issue in the fall session at Queen's Park.

Register to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aR5hQ57uRiaAESWxy44S7g #/registration

The time is now!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Raise the Rates Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) recipients have struggled with legislated poverty, hunger, and housing insecurity for too long. We’re at a breaking point. Ontario’s social security system is failing. With a united voice, we demand that the current ODSP and OW ben...

In the London area? Mark your calendar for CUPE 2361's community BBQ and rally, Sat. August 17, noon to 2pm, Richmond St. & University Dr. and support the workers who support campus life at Western University
Read more about their bargaining herehttps://cupe.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2361-event-leaflet-August-2024.pdf
and take action for a clean, safe, accessible campus here
https://cupe.ca/clean-safe-accessible-campus-students-and-staff

This past weekend was full of celebration for Caribbean culture, including Carnival, where CUPE Ontario and it's contingent showed their love and appreciation to the crowds gathered to see all the floats and costumes ✊🏾👏🏽

CUPE Ontario, CUPE Local 905, and CUPE Local 4400 partnered with EPIC Carnival, a growing non-for profit organization with a passionate and creative team who shares a goal of integrating Caribbean culture into our multicultural community.

CUPE 2361 members – caretaking, landscape services and trades workers at Western University – struggle with an understaffing crisis caused by low wages and high workloads. There are not enough support staff to provide high-quality services in residences, classrooms, offices, labs and washrooms. This situation is unsustainable and we need your support. 🚫‼️

Send a message to Western's administration in support of the workers who keep the campus running. Tell them to negotiate a fair deal that reflects the rising cost of living and substantial gap in wages. ✊🏾📢

https://cupe.ca/clean-safe-accessible-campus-students-and-staff

Read their informational flyer here:https://cupe.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2361-Canada-Summer-Games-leaflet-July-2024.pdf

Emancipation Day, observed on August 1, commemorates the day in 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act,1833 came into effect. The law liberated enslaved people in the British colonies, including Canada. And yet it was only in 2021 that Canadian parliament designated August 1 National Emancipation Day.

The abolition of enslavement did not end the struggle for equality and justice for Black people in our country. To this day, the history of enslaved people in Canada is often overlooked and the crucial role that enslaved Africans and their descendants have played in shaping our social and cultural landscapes has yet to be fully recognized.

On August 1 we commit to continuing the work of those who fought for freedom and equality. CUPE Ontario will always work alongside those who will engage in the ongoing struggle toward the eradication of racism and the promotion of equality.

Read our full statement here: https://cupe.on.ca/cupe-ontario-statement-for-emancipation-day/

We would like to let you know that the deadline for the CUPE Ontario Young Workers Logo contest has been extended to August 12, 2024. ‼️

We’re on the hunt for a fresh, dynamic logo for the Young Workers Committee, and we need your creative genius to make it happen.

The lucky winner will have the honor of their design being chosen as the official logo and will get to attend the Young Workers Conference in November. And guess what? No registration fees, no hotel accommodation costs – it’s all on us!

Young CUPE workers, don't miss this opportunity to showcase your talent, grab your sketchbooks and submit your design before August 12 2024.

Email your design to [email protected] with the subject: Young Workers Logo Contest. Include your CUPE local number and confirm your age is 35 or younger.

Ready, set, design!

✨ Best of luck! ✨

Mark your calendars for this year’s Annual Labour Day Parade on Monday, September 2nd!

This year, we’re celebrating how “Workers Shape Our Future,” marching forward to make a better society possible.

⏰ Mon, Sept 2 at 9:30AM Sharp
📍Queen/University to the Ex

The Support Our Care days of action are in full swing this summer ✊🏾📢

Last week, Scarborough saw folks coming out to sign our petition and join in the festivities as the committee aims to get 60,000 signatures by the end of 2024.

It’s an ambitious goal, we know. But we need to show the Ontario government and all the members of our provincial parliament that many Ontarians support increased funding into health care and health care workers! 💪🏾

Find more info and events happening near you here: https://cupe.on.ca/support-our-care/

Help us reach 1,000 signatures by Friday!🌡️
We're calling on the Ontario government to implement legislation that increases protections for workers against heat stress NOW. Join our campaign to protect workers in Ontario.
Download the petition: https://ofl.ca/action/the-heat-is-on/

ATTENTION ALL ACTIVISTS 📢🍊✊🏾

The ONDP is holding a Campaign School: Get Out the Vote! This will be a full-day session in the GTA on Saturday, August 10th at 8:30AM.

This is an opportunity to volunteer for the Ontario New Democrats and to learn more about how to engage more people to vote for a progressive government in our province!

This session will cover campaign basics, election, planning, communications, and how to become more familiar with campaign tools. The training is open to all activists! Sign-up here: https://cupe.on.ca/ndpgotv_aug2024/

CUPE Ontario and the Ontario Compensation Employees Union are relaunching the Cover Me campaign! ☂️✊🏾

We want to centre the voices of workers who have been injured without proper WSIB coverage to make the case to all Ontarians that universal coverage is the only just and sensible path forward.

If you have been hurt at work and did not have WSIB coverage and you’d like to share your story, we want to hear it.

Please fill in the form here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=wFhl6Xtze0GU5sbir-WwBdMruqggOlZPuBWahdFX9wxUOElTT0ZaQVhYMkw2Sk80RUtJNVYzQzRKSS4u

Ontario Council of Hospital Unions - CUPE continues it's demonstrations all over Ontario, staging anti-privatization demonstration at different MPP’s constituency offices in response to government expansion of private, for-profit healthcare services ✊🏾📢🪧

“The Ford government says the status quo isn’t working – but it’s a status quo of their own making,” said Michael Hurley, President of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE).

“They have been underfunding and starving the public system and dangling privatization as a solution. But privatization is twice as expensive and comes with longer waiting lists. We are calling for real solutions to the hospital crisis, like concrete measures to attract and retain new staff and the addition of new beds.” 🚨🚫

Our healthcare system is under attack! The push to privatize hospital surgeries and diagnostic procedures will jeopardize the quality and accessibility of care for every one of us. This is a fight we cannot afford to lose. That is why Ontario Council of Hospital Unions - CUPE is hosting anti-privatization rallies at MPP office ALL OVER ONTARIO🚫🚨

We need YOU to join us at a critical rally TOMORROW. Your voice, your presence, and your passion are essential.

Don't stand by and let our healthcare be sold off to the highest bidder. This is our fight, and we must win it. ✊🏾📢

WHEN: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 from 11:30AM – 1:00PM

WHERE: MPP Neil Lumsden's Office, 115 Hwy 8 Unit #102, Stoney Creek, ON L8G 1C1

Support fair wages for CUPE members at the City of Mississauga! ✊🏾📢

CUPE Local 66 members who work in Parking Enforcement and Animal Services at the City of Mississauga work to help keep streets safe and orderly.

They are currently in bargaining negotiations with their employer, and need your help as they fight for fair wages to avoid a strike.

Send a message to the city supporting their fight here: https://cupe.ca/support-fair-wages-cupe-members-city-mississauga

🚨 URGENT: Stand Against Hospital Privatization!

Our healthcare system is under attack! The push to privatize hospital surgeries and diagnostic procedures will jeopardize the quality and accessibility of care for every one of us. This is a fight we cannot afford to lose.

🗓 Date: July 24,2024
🕒 Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
📍 Location: 115 HWY 8, Unit 102

We need YOU!!! to join us in this critical rally. Your voice, your presence, and your passion are essential.
Together, we can stop this threat and protect our public healthcare system.

Don't stand by and let our healthcare be sold off to the highest bidder. Share this post, spread the word, and bring everyone you know. This is our fight, and we must win it.









Join us on July 24 with folks in North Bay to celebrate the important work that CUPE 4720 members do and commemorate World Hepatitis Day! 👏🏽

We'll be providing food, treats, and refreshments to attendees, as well as live entertainment 🎉

You'll also be able to access confidential point of care testing for Hep C and HIV on site.

Details 👇🏽

CUPE Ontario extends congratulations and deep appreciation to Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) members, negotiators and leaders on the deal that has been ratified following the union’s strike at the LCBO. 👏🏽✊🏾

The issues at stake in this strike had an impact on all of us across the province. LCBO workers were engaged in a fight not only for better pay and conditions, but in defense of public services, against the forces of privatization, and against the greed and corruption of the Ford Conservatives.

Read our full statement here: https://cupe.on.ca/bargaining-for-the-common-good-prevails/

For years, Doug Ford’s Conservatives have severely underfunded health care in Ontario. Health care workers have been critically underpaid and overworked, and are facing exhaustion, stress, and burn out. 🚫 🚨

And while public sector wages have been curbed for more than a decade through a combination of underfunding and legislation, the cost of living has grown so bad that many public sector workers are taking on second jobs, using food banks, or are leaving the jobs they love for better paid work elsewhere.

We need to fix health care in Ontario. ✊🏾

The Health Care Workers’ Coordinating Committee (HCWCC) has launched the Support Our Care petition, aiming to get 60,000 signatures in person by the end of 2024. It’s an ambitious goal, we know. But we need to show the Ontario government that Ontarians support investing in our health care workers and our health care system!

Join us at the upcoming Days of Action that the HCWCC is hosting below and help collect all those petition signatures! All while enjoying food from great vendors! 📢📢

Find more information on the campaign here: https://cupe.on.ca/support-our-care/ -ourcare

Folks from Grand Bend hosted their Support Our Care Day of Action where they collected signatures to call on the Ontario Conservative government to heavily invest in health care, raise the wages of health care workers, focus on the recruitment and retention of health care workers across sectors, and strengthen workers' rights. ✊🏾

The actions aim to raise awareness of the extreme stress, exhaustion, and burnout Ontario health care workers feel on and off the job, day in and day out. 📢📢

Find more here: https://cupe.on.ca/support-our-care/ -ourcare

Ontario’s early learning and child care system is in crisis. Across Ontario, the impacts of insufficient funding are being felt by educators, parents and providers.

This is not acceptable. 🚫🚫

We are asking you to stand up with ECEs, child care workers, families and children by sending a message to your MP, MPP, Premier Doug Ford, Ontario’s Minister of Education Todd Smith and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Federal Minister of Children, Families and Social Development Jenna Sudds telling them to work together to ensure that the early learning and child care workforce have decent work and pay and that the non-profit and public child care sectors are stable, thriving and expanding. ✊🏾📢

Sign the petition here: https://www.childcareontario.org/privatization