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TORONTO, May 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Local 79 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Local 79) inside workers, has filed for conciliation in their negotiations with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), a move they hope will lead to more constructive discussions at the bargaining table.
CUPE Local 79, which represents over 700 full and part-time workers at TCHC (the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America), has been in negotiations with TCHC since September 2020. According to Dave Mitchell, President of CUPE Local 79, the request to begin working with a provincially appointed conciliation officer was motivated by TCHC’s continued request for concessions.
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“The Ford Government’s Racist Scapegoating Must Be Resisted:” CUPE Ontario Condemns Rhetoric About Borders and International Students
May 5, 2021 GMT
TORONTO (BUSINESS WIRE) May 5, 2021
The Ford government’s escalating rhetoric about closing the borders and banning international students is racist dog whistle politics that has nothing to do with fighting COVID-19, and the Federal government must not enforce border controls unfairly targeting anyone, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario.
“This is part of a long-standing pattern by the Ford Conservatives of evading responsibility and blaming anyone but themselves,” said Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario. “Let’s be clear. No matter the changing circumstances with this pandemic, if the Ford Conservatives had done their job months ago, listened to their own science table, and put in place real measur
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The effect of chronic underfunding to Ontario’s hospitals over the next eight years is going to be felt particularly hard in Northeastern Ontario, according to the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU).
Unless the funding formula is changed, OCHU president Michael Hurley said the shortfall will mean there will be 1,325 fewer staff at the larger hospitals in the northeast.
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Speaking at a media conference Wednesday, Hurley called on MPPs in Northern Ontario to fight to “not take us down this road,” saying cuts under the Doug Ford government have been “deeper” than those under former premier Mike Harris, “which were savage.”
The effect of chronic underfunding to Ontario’s hospitals over the next eight years is going to be felt particularly hard in Northeastern Ontario, according to…