NORTH BAY, Ont. – “Community effort is key to reversing the decision to close the Nipissing Area Joint Hospitals Laundry and saving the jobs of 26 laundry workers, says Sid Ryan, the Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), a guest speaker at a community meeting tomorrow organized by the ‘Keep Jobs Local’ Coalition. [May 16, 2007 10:44 AM]

NORTH BAY, Ont. – Area laundry workers, slated to lose their jobs because of a decision by a board of local health care providers to close the Nipissing Area Joint Hospitals Laundry facility, are getting support from many in the North Bay community who want the decision rescinded. [May 11, 2007 07:03 PM]

OTTAWA, Ont. – Disclosure of court documents relating to Ontario’s first privatized hospital show that the McGuinty Liberals knew that the deal with a private consortium could cost as much as $300 million more than under public financing and administration.
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[May 11, 2007 06:32 PM]

TORONTO, Ont. – Child care workers from McMurrich Sprouts Daycare, located in Winona McMurrich Elementary Public School in Toronto, have voted to become members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). The 22 early childhood educators, child care assistants and cooks voted to join CUPE in a certification vote supervised by the Ontario Labour Relations Board. [May 11, 2007 06:29 PM]

Please note the change in location for the CUPE 1483
contract ratification vote on May15 at 3:00 p.m.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Custodians and trades staff—members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1483—reached a tentative contract deal with the Dufferin-Peel District Catholic School Board (DPDCSB) in the early morning today (May 9, 2007).

[May 10, 2007 05:35 PM]

A looming, provincewide labour dispute at agencies that serve developmentally disabled adults could see care jeopardized for thousands of Ontario's most vulnerable adults, union officials in the sector say. Kingston Whig-Standard (ON) - Wed 09 May 2007
Byline: James Wallace - Source: Osprey News Network

[May 10, 2007 12:23 PM]

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Custodians and trades staff—members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1483—reached a tentative contract deal with the Dufferin-Peel District Catholic School Board (DPDCSB) in the early morning today (May 9, 2007). [May 9, 2007 02:37 PM]

NORTH BAY, Ont. – Undeterred by a decision by local health care providers to close their workplace, workers at the Nipissing Area Joint Hospital Laundry Service have negotiated a new contract that includes strengthened job security rights. [May 4, 2007 04:16 PM]

TORONTO — The McGuinty government must ensure that new funding announced today for developmental services is used to strengthen the whole sector and not just to adjust wages of the lowest of the low-paid, said CUPE Ontario President Sid Ryan. [May 2, 2007 02:44 PM]

OTTAWA, Ont. – Scotiabank Place workers, members of Local 4809 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), voted 86 per cent in favour of a strike, after trying for nearly a year to negotiate a first collective agreement since first becoming organized in June of 2006. Frustrated with their employer’s refusal to make a fair contract offer, the 61 conversion staff will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 am, on May 7th, 2007. [Apr 30, 2007 11:53 AM]

Bill C303 passed Second Reading in the House of Commons with the support of all three opposition parties. Committee hearings open Tuesday, April 24 and continue over four days. The bill's supporters will be out in force to ensure it moves forward for passage.
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[Apr 24, 2007 03:11 PM]

Cleanliness at area separate schools could suffer now that custodians and trades staff with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board have voted in favour of a board-wide strike. [Apr 18, 2007 03:47 PM]

NORTH BAY, Ont. – Both North Bay’s Liberal MPP and the hospital administration have misplaced priorities when it comes to keeping local jobs in our community, says a local coalition group working to reverse a decision to close the Nipissing Joint Laundry Services and move 26 jobs to Sudbury. [Apr 17, 2007 03:50 PM]

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – “Ontario’s self-styled ‘education premier’ and education minister should pay close attention to this week’s annual meeting of school support staff. Prone to forgetting that school support staff are important to quality education, the debate on education issues from the perspective of school support workers will be very instructional for the McGuinty Liberals,” says Sid Ryan, the Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE.) [Apr 17, 2007 03:25 PM]

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – At a well-attended meeting at an area high school last night, custodians and trades staff with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board gave union negotiators a strong 95 per cent strike vote mandate, a move they say will protect both jobs and the quality of services. [Apr 16, 2007 12:07 PM]

OSHAWA, Ont. – School board workers at the Durham District School Board are heading back to work Tuesday, following a ratification vote today that approved a tentative agreement reached over the weekend, between the board and Local 218 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). [Apr 3, 2007 11:49 AM]

THUNDER BAY, Ont. – CUPE 3905 Teaching and Graduate Assistants (TAs and GAs) at Lakehead University have reached an agreement with the university averting strike action. [Apr 2, 2007 11:00 AM]

At an impasse; custodians, trades workers take strike vote
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – With no new funding relief for school support services announced in last week’s Ontario budget and a pro-cuts provincial supervisor hovering over contract negotiations between custodians and trades workers and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB), the tense talks reached an impasse this week.

[Mar 29, 2007 12:35 PM]

TORONTO, Ont. – Members of CUPE 3261, the striking part-time warehouse workers at UT-Press, have ratified a memorandum of settlement, thus ending a strike now in its fourth week. [Mar 28, 2007 03:00 PM]

Brothers Paul Moist and Claude Généreux brought the support of 560,000 CUPE members across Canada to 2,100 striking school board workers at a “It’s about time” rally at the Durham District School Board on Tuesday, March 27. [Mar 28, 2007 10:29 AM]