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This is an appeal for financial and material support on behalf of a determined and committed group of workers, the locked-out members of CUPE Local 2049.

On December 23, the Nipissing and Parry Sound Children’s Aid Society (CAS) locked out its 140 Northern workers and suspended all Youth Justice Services and Early Intervention programs. The agency has children and families relying on scabs for reduced services, while forcing its trained and experienced workers to walk the picket line; and of course, the longer the lockout goes on, the greater the risk to the vulnerable children, youth and families in the CAS’s care.

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The Paul Jordison Scholarship Fund Committee is established to award annual scholarships to CUPE Local 966 members (or their dependants) that are pursuing education at the post-secondary level. The fund was established in memory of Paul Jordison, a long-standing CUPE 966 National Representative. Local 966 would like to extend congratulations to our successful candidates. We wish you the best of luck!

Christina Macri
Mary Wangari Muange
Brianna Schuler
Amelia terBrugge
Marquise Bradley

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TORONTO, ON — Care and nursing staff who have for over a decade called for legislated, higher care levels for Ontario’s 80,000 long-term care residents, are urging Ontario MPPs to put “partisanship” aside and support a private members Bill introduced yesterday for a daily care standard of at least four hours, that they say will provide residents care with dignity.

“It’s the right thing to do. We’re urging all MPPs to come together, put aside partisan politics and vote in support of this Bill because there is broad public support for a legislated care standard for nursing home residents and because they deserve a higher quality of care,” says Candace Rennick, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) secretary-treasurer and a long-term care worker for nearly 20 years.

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SAMS workers’ survey charts decline in service quality for social assistance recipients

TORONTO – In the wake of damaging new details about the Wynne government’s decisions around the Social Assistance Management System (SAMS), CUPE Ontario has released the results of a recent survey of its members in Ontario Works (OW) offices across the province.

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