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Image: CUPE Ontario. Used by permission.
Ontario government withholds $9 billion in COVID funding
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | RadioLabour's Canada Report: 500 Ontario schools hit by virus while government withholds money. Union organizing during a pandemic.
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CUPE says white privilege must be confronted
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | RadioLabour's Canada Report: CUPE president Mark Hancock tells his 700,000 members that Black lives matter, and white privilege must be acknowledged and confronted.
Podcast
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Ontario destroyed millions of respirators health-care workers need
Marc Belanger, Derek Blackadder | RadioLabour's Canada Report: How unions are supporting health-care workers in Ontario and B.C.
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Parents fighting the cuts to public education in Ontario
Scott Neigh | Rachel Huot talks about the emergence of a network of parents committed to fighting the cuts to public education in Ontario.
News
Protesting against the Ford Conservatives' planned cuts to education. Image: Mary Crandall/Flickr
CUPE education workers ratify deal with the province
Zaid Noorsumar | CUPE represents approximately 55,000 support staff in the province including special needs assistants, early childhood educators and custodians.
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Michael Hurley. Image: CUPE. Used with permission.
Ford government cuts will hurt a health system already in crisis
Maya Bhullar | Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, explains how Ford government cuts threaten Ontario's beleaguered health-care system.
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The Mearns Centre at the University of Victoria. Image: Page DeWolfe/Flickr
Precarious work looms large in bargaining impasse for University of Victoria lecturers
Zaid Noorsumar | Job security is the main goal for the 450 sessional lecturers and music instructors currently in negotiations with the university.
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The Canadian Infrastructure Bank has been hijacked by billionaire private investment firms
| How do we invest in public infrastructure with accountability?
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Returning to work poses greatest challenge once a strike ends
Meagan Gillmore | The divisions that strikes create between employees and management can take a long time to heal, and in some cases never do.
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Justice for Indigenous workers both in the workplace and in the union
Meagan Gillmore | In a paper released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Lynne Fernandez and Jim Silver describe the history of Indigenous people in labour.
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Saskatchewan workers have a right to belong to the union they choose
Tom Graham | New labour legislation in Saskatchewan means employers can remove supervisors from their union.
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Teachers protesting Bill 115 in downtown Toronto in 2012
Union court victory will be hollow if not used to mobilize teachers
Nora Loreto | Ontario's teacher unions are rightly celebrating the squashing of Bill 115. But defending collective bargaining cannot just happen in the courts.