Support staff of the LDCSB
Please see the attached release regarding CUPE’s statement of support for ETFO & OSSTF and calling the minister out for his attempts to divide the workers and parents.
Let’s continue to support our allies from ETFO and OSSTF as they continue their fight for better working and learning conditions for all.
Your Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce that we have ratified Part B of our Collective Agreement. The new agreement reflecting the changes, will be posted once it becomes available.
After five months out of Queen’s Park, Conservative MPPs were met by labour and community activists at Queen’s Park on Monday, October 28. A march was held circling the Queen’s Park circle, while inside a press conference that included labour leaders and workers who have been laid off because of Conservative cuts where the OFL called on the Conservatives to change the agenda and build an Ontario for all.
We sent a strong message. With a cavalcade of floats at Queen’s Park and actions across Ontario at MPP offices, it was widely covered in the media and #powerofmany was trending on twitter.
Wear PURPLE every Wednesday
and to show solidarity and support
we are EDUCATION WORKERS and we are the Power of Public Education
What are the Ford Conservatives are trying to achieve with Bill 124?
Read the fact sheet: Bill 124 Fact Sheet
How is the Conservatives’ austerity agenda affecting school boards in Ontario?
Read for details: Cuts and Reduction in Services
Visit the CUPE Ontario website now and send a message to the government
“The next year will be an important one for working people in Ontario. There is a lot at stake for us. But we are ready,” said CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn in recognition of an ambitious action plan adopted by over 1000 delegates to CUPE Ontario’s 56th annual convention. “We will mobilize with allies in communities to confront the PC government in every way possible.”
Recent polls show that in every region of this province, including where PC candidates were elected less than a year ago, Ontarians don’t support the Ford agenda. This includes cuts to funding for our schools, health care including public health, social services, universities and emergency services.
With 270,000 members across Ontario, “mobilizing and coalition building will mean a collective force working on behalf of all Ontarians to maintain services people rely on and to build more inclusive, caring communities,” said Hahn. “It’s our sense that Ontarians see through corner store beer to the real meanspirited side of Ford’s plans that will undermine the foundation of the services working people need.”
The plan features escalating actions to defend public services and workers’ rights and mobilize against the rising tide of hate and white supremacy.
“It is humbling to know that CUPE Ontario members are prepared to give their time, effort and energy in this way, to take time away from their own families to protect their neighbours and their communities. That is truly what it means to look out for one another. Something that clearly our Premier doesn’t understand.” said Hahn.
CUPE Convention Delegates March to Queen’s Park Today
Learn more about the convention and the direction we will be taking during this bargaining year at our next General Membership Meeting on June 8, 2019. We need all of our of members to be engaged in building the force to push back against cuts by the Ford Conservatives.
Please take time to read the booklet found at the link below. It contains valuable information for all CUPE workers.