Posted Apr 23, 2012 09:20 AM
Post-secondary institutions across the country are facing major funding shortages, and students—already struggling with major debt loads after graduation—are being asked to pick up even more of the tab.
But students in Quebec are fighting back in impressive style.
Posted Apr 16, 2012 10:18 AM
Front-line university workers at Queen’s University not only averted a lock-out or strike that would have impacted campus operations, they also gained crucial new pension rights and significantly reduced pension plan changes that the employer had tried to impose.
This was the first time all three CUPE locals at Queen’s bargained together. The employer surprised the bargaining team by including pensions for the first time in Queen’s bargaining history. Formerly, discussions on pensions for workers at the University involved all seven unions, including the three CUPE locals.
Posted Mar 27, 2012 10:49 AM
Today’s Ontario budget will increase poverty, kill jobs and hurt communities without fixing the economy, says Fred Hahn, president of CUPE Ontario.
“It’s all pain without the gain. This budget won’t fix the deficit. It will pull billions out of the economy, throw thousands out of work and cut the services that our communities rely on,” he said. “Balancing the books on the back of a child care worker who makes $28,000 a year or a school secretary who makes $35,000 a year while corporations are enjoying the benefit of huge tax cuts and refusing to create jobs is an outrage.”