May 23, 2012 |
We cannot stand by while governments continue to violate our basic rights in the name of austerity and funding cuts that only fuel the growing gap between rich and poor.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
With 570,000 members across Canada, CUPE represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines.
May 11, 2012 |
Thousands of Ontarians die needlessly due to medical errors, hospital-acquired infections and cost-cutting each year. Hospital cost-cutting planned by the Ontario government will make epidemic worse.
April 23, 2012 |
Reports concludes the Samaritan Place pilot project will cost taxpayers $10 million to $20 million more than if it had been built using traditional public sector financing.
March 28, 2012 |
This budget will be particularly hard on communities with high unemployment such as Windsor, London, Brantford and in northern Ontario.
March 21, 2012 |
Members of Local 79 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees came out in historic numbers to vote for a strike mandate, providing their bargaining team with greater leverage in negotiations.
March 16, 2012 |
Previous polling showed Torontonians value their public services (84% wanted to increase or maintain funding), and a new poll shows this support extends right to the workers who provide them.
February 15, 2012 |
Cost-cutting and the massive re-design of health services is coming, even though over the last decade health-care spending has shrunk as a percentage of total program spending.
January 16, 2012 |
The City of Toronto’s hasty decision to declare an impasse in bargaining is the “latest step in the Ford administration’s campaign against public services.
January 11, 2012 |
The end of 2011 was marked by an unprecedented attack against the pension plans of hundreds of thousands of Quebec workers.
December 19, 2011 |
Are provincial and territorial finance ministers going to follow the federal governments lead and continue with an option that only benefit banks and the finance industry?