CUPE Ontario

With over 309,000 members, CUPE Ontario campaigns for legislative and political change to defend public services, communities, equity, and workers' rights.

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Thunder Bay Public Library workers are on strike, and they need our solidarity. 👇🏽

Members of CUPE 3120 and CUPE 87-18 are standing up against concessions and fighting to protect their working conditions and the library services their community relies on.

Here are two ways you can support them today:

1. Send a message demanding a fair deal 📖

Take a minute to tell the Library Board to withdraw its concessions and negotiate a fair agreement. Wherever you are in Ontario, you can help put pressure on the employer.

https://t.co/rVUviK0Hbo

2. Join tonight’s solidarity rally 🪧

If you’re in the Thunder Bay area, bring your coworkers, friends and union flags and stand with library workers on the picket line.

📅: TONIGHT: Thursday, October 15
🕠: 5:30PM – 7:00PM
📍: 1020 Dawson Road, Thunder Bay

Library workers show up for our communities every day. Now it’s our turn to show up for them. ✊🏽📢

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Read these wise words from @iamdavidmiller & no matter where you live in Ontario, remember them when you vote in the #municipalelections on October 26. Because we *must* #keepwaterpublic
https://t.co/jyt2rFfT2b

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

"It’s time for us to nationalize Stelco to protect Canadian jobs and assert control over this critical sector."

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Steel is a strategic industry that underpins our economy, our sovereignty, and our national security. It’s time for us to nationalize Stelco to protect Canadian jobs and assert control over this critical sector.

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

📣 Save the date!

Every student deserves a well-funded school and the support they need to thrive. Together with OSBCU and other education unions, we’re standing up for publicly funded education across Ontario.

Join education workers, families and community allies at rallies in London, Ottawa, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Toronto.

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
🕐 1PM to 2:30PM

Bring your coworkers, friends and family. Let’s make our voices heard for our schools, our students and our communities! ✊🏽

Register here: https://t.co/f8uUEIM0cx

[OSBCU-CSCSO @osbcucscso]

🚌 Buses for OSBCU members & families to rallies. Oct 24, stand united for education! Register: https://t.co/4HuS1Dykoh The more people we have standing together on October 24, the stronger our message will be for publicly funded education! #EducationMatters #OSBCU

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

A huge shoutout to @cupe_4705 for bringing together #greatersudbury workers, #MunicipalElection candidates, and communities to discuss the future of our public services.
@cupe_4705 is northern Ontario's largest CUPE local, representing approximately 1,500 municipal workers in emergency services, social services, libraries, roads, the airport, and more.
The event was a great opportunity to engage with municipal candidates about the issues that matter to workers and their communities, including the importance of keeping our public services public.
Even better, 22 candidates signed the https://t.co/u8r3XvMTNe pledge!

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

CUPE Ontario President, Yolanda McClean, joined WSIB workers who are fighting to send a message to the government to stop adding INSULT to INJURY. ✊🏽📢

We are standing shoulder to shoulder to keep their offices open and protect the services injured workers rely on.

Office closures hurt workers and the communities they serve. We stand with OCEU/CUPE 1750 members demanding that WSIB keep offices open and put injured workers first. 💪🏽

Solidarity!

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

A few moments from last week’s CACO caucus 🚨✊🏽

It was a chance to connect, share experiences and bring our voices together. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation and helped make the gathering what it was. 👏🏽

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

In Fall 2027, the largest archive of Indian Residential School Survivor records is set to be destroyed by order of the Supreme Court of Canada.

This September 30th, on National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, the Indian Residential School Records Project (IRSR) project is hosting an event in collaboration with the Yellowhead Institute to discuss the right to truth and how the history of residential schools should be documented and managed.

In the context of rising residential school denialism, this event is being held at an urgent and critical moment.

Connie Walker (Investigative Journalist; Assistant Professor, Velma Rogers Research Chair, TMU), Kimberly Murray (Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites; Associate Professor, Queen's), Marie Wilson (TRC Commissioner, 2009 - 2015), and Stephen Kakfwi (Survivor, former NWT Premier) in conversation with Hayden King (Executive Director, Yellowhead Institute) will discuss: What is at stake if we lose Survivor records?

Location: Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto & Online
Registration Required: for more details, visit https://t.co/Qw3D46dvNS

[OSBCU-CSCSO @osbcucscso]

"Governments count on us staying in our own lanes. Solidarity is how we refuse." OSBCU President Joe Tigani in Toronto today.

Workshops, a panel with OCHU, OPSEU, OCAP and Amazon organizers, and one message: this fight is ours.

#onpoli #CUPE

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Christine Couture, représentante francophone au conseil exécutif du SCFP-Ontario, offre ces mots à l'occasion du Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes : « En tant que représentante francophone pour le SCFP Ontario, j’avais envie de prendre un moment, en cette Journée franco-ontarienne, pour célébrer avec vous notre francophonie et toute la place qu’elle occupe dans nos vies.

La francophonie, c’est bien plus qu’une langue. C’est une culture, une identité, des accents, des expressions et une façon bien à nous de nous rassembler.

Dans nos milieux de travail comme dans notre milieu syndical, parler, créer, accueillir, accompagner et servir en français, c’est faire vivre cette francophonie au quotidien. C’est créer des liens, offrir des services en français et contribuer, chacun et chacune à notre façon, à faire grandir notre communauté francophone partout en Ontario.

Merci à toutes celles et à tous ceux qui font vivre le français chaque jour, dans leur travail, dans leur communauté et dans notre mouvement syndical. De la part du SCFPOntario, on vous souhaite une très belle Journée franco ontarienne ! »

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Christine Couture, CUPE Ontario's Francophone representative, shared these words to mark Franco-Ontarian Day: "As the Francophone representative for CUPE Ontario, I wanted to take a moment on this Franco-Ontarian Day to celebrate our Francophone community with you, and reflect on everything it means in our lives.

"La Francophonie is so much more than simply language. It is a culture, an identity, accents, expressions, and our own special way of coming together.

"In our workplaces as well as in our union, speaking, creating, welcoming, supporting, and serving in French means living la Francophonie every day. It's building connections, providing services in French, and contributing, each and every one of us, to the growth of our Francophone community throughout Ontario.

"Thank you to everyone who keeps la Francophonie alive every day—in their work, in their communities, and in our labor movement. On behalf of CUPE Ontario, we wish you a wonderful Franco-Ontarian Day."

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Le SCFP-Ontario souhaite à tous nos membres francophones dans la province un jouyeux Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes. Merci au conseil exécutif du @cupenat/SCFP le @OCHU_Healthcare /CSHO/ et le Réseau des retraités du SCFP-Ontario pour leur voeux !
CUPE Ontario wishes all ourFrancophone members a happy Franco-Ontarian Day. Thanks to @cupenat /SCFP's executive board, @OCHU_Healthcare and CUPE Ontario's Retirees Network for their wishes.

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Le SCFP-Ontario souhaite à tous nos membres francophones dans la province un jouyeux Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes. Merci au conseil exécutif du @cupenat/SCFP le @OCHU_Healthcare /CSHO/ et le Réseau des retraités du SCFP-Ontario pour leur voeux !
CUPE Ontario wishes all ourFrancophone members a happy Franco-Ontarian Day. Thanks to @cupenat /SCFP's executive board, @OCHU_Healthcare and CUPE Ontario's Retirees Network for their wishes.

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

That’s a wrap on the Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee Conference! 🏥✊🏾

Over the past few days, CUPE health care workers from across Ontario came together to connect, learn, strategize and build the collective power we need to defend public health care.

We’re leaving this conference stronger, more united and ready to keep fighting for health care workers, our patients and the public services our communities depend on. 📢

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Behind every book recommendation, community program and welcoming library space are workers who care deeply about the people they serve. We’re proud to have shared some of their stories.

To Thunder Bay’s library workers: thank you for all you do to make your libraries places where everyone belongs. Solidarity always! ✊🏽📖

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Tomorrow night, CUPE Ontario President Yolanda McClean joins Laura Walton and Marit Stiles for a conversation about workplace justice, pay equity, harassment, child care, and women’s leadership in unions. ✊🏽

Then we’re watching 9 to 5 because the fight for respect at work is still relevant 46 years later. 🎬🍿

📅 Friday, September 25
🕕 Panel at 6:15 p.m. | Film at 7 p.m.
📍 895 Don Mills Road, Suite 600, Toronto

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Register here to save your spot: https://t.co/j7hnDPd1w6

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

CUPE members joined the March for the Land to stand with Grassy Narrows First Nation. ✊🏽

For generations, the community has fought for clean water, justice for mercury poisoning, and the right to protect their land.

We’re proud to march alongside them and add our voices to their call: respect Grassy Narrows’ sovereignty and protect the land for future generations.

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Great leadership by the national executive board of @cupenat, which passed a unanimous motion vowing to defy the Liberal government's Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike. Read more here: https://t.co/CSK2rXYmk1
No to #billc39 #canpoli

[CUPE Ontario @CUPEOntario]

Hear from Juanita Forde, CUPE Ontario 3rd VP, speak on WSIB workers are being asked to do more with less while their offices face closure and their coworkers face layoffs. Injured workers need support they can count on, and the people who provide it deserve support too.

We stand with WSIB workers fighting to protect their jobs and the services their communities rely on. Add your voice: https://t.co/S6nTMutgAm ✊