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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies shows a co-relation between the dramatic growth in agency usage and underfunding of public hospitals over the last decade. Between 2013-14 a...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The union representing workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) were surprised when their employer filed to terminate the Collective Agreement effective May 16th. The employer had its bargaining mandate for only 2 bargaining dates when management filed this request with the ministry, even as good-faith proposals presented by the union were being tabled. The members of CUPE local 1750 are struggling with unreasonable workloads. Where the WSIB managemen...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imagine going to work in a town or city where, by government decree, workers had no right to health and safety, a minimum wage, or employment protections, including the right to recourse when they were injured, fired or mistreated on the job. That’s the reality bearing down on Ontarians once the Ford Conservatives’ Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025, is made law. Buried in Schedule 9 of this omnibus bill, now at second reading in the Ontario le...

EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A bill before the Alberta Legislature will, if passed, allow for the operation and funding of hospitals by private, for-profit entities. Bill 55, The Health Statutes Amendment Act, lets the Health Minister turn hospitals over to private interests, and private operators and charge fees for services. CUPE Alberta President Raj Uppal joined NDP MLAs and other health care union leaders at the Alberta Legislature to call on the United Conservative Party (UCP) gove...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Workers, allies, and the CUPE National officers will swell the Toronto picket line of CUPE 2073 on Friday. These members work at Canadian Hearing Services as sign language interpreters, employment consultants, counsellors, and in other critical roles that remove barriers for Deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Ontarians. They have been on strike since April 28. CUPE National President Mark Hancock and CUPE National Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick will join the str...

OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Instead of teaching and caring for children - as she has done for two decades - early childhood educator Amanda Quance is currently out of work. She was fired from Charlotte Birchard Centres of Early Learning (CBCEL), an Ottawa childcare centre, after trying to organize her coworkers to build their power as part of a union. Last fall, Quance started having conversations with co-workers about challenges they face as childcare workers, and how forming a union cou...

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland and Labrador--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CUPE Newfoundland and Labrador held their 51st annual convention this week, hosting delegates from across the province. They came together to vote on resolutions on fighting privatization, supporting migrant workers, and lifting up young workers. This Wednesday, elections for several positions on the executive board were held, including the position of division president. Sherry Hillier was re-elected as president and will serve a two-year...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IPEC and COF recognize five outstanding interprofessional team-based projects that enhance health outcomes and promote community engagement....

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The workers who run the YWCA Toronto’s homeless shelters often leave work and go to food banks. Many of those who help families find stable housing live with the daily stress of how they’re going to afford their own rent. This simmering crisis of poverty and precarity among YWCA Toronto workers has led to a possible historic strike at the feminist agency in less than three weeks. A No-Board report was delivered yesterday by the Ontario Labour Relations Board, meaning t...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Korn Ferry (NYSE: KFY) has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as America’s best executive recruiting firm – a top ranking achieved by the company in eight of the last nine years since Forbes and market research firm Statista began offering the annual rankings. Korn Ferry was also honored as a top professional search firm. “We’re honored to be named by Forbes as America’s best executive recruiter and I am enormously proud of our colleagues," said Gary Burnison, CEO,...