WHO IS COPE ONTARIO? 

We are a membership-driven organization representing workers in various public and private sectors such as Health Care, Education, Financial Services, Labour Organizations, Non-Profit and Government agencies. With 20 locals and approximately 7,000 members across the province, we are a diverse and wide reaching union. We are affiliated to the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) giving us strength in millions, allowing our members to have a voice in all issues affecting working people. It is also the purpose and aim of the Council to inform, advise and educate workers in the principles and policies of this Union and of the benefits and gains which they may achieve through organizing and collective bargaining.

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Happy 20th birthday to us!

June 20th marks the anniversary of the founding of COPE as an autonomous Canadian union.

It was on this day 20 years ago that the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union became a union in its own right, the leadership of the time deciding it was time to part company with a U.S. based organization.

COPE is a proud Canadian union with members from coast to coast.

We’ve accomplished a lot in the last two decades on behalf of workers across the country, and there is lots more to do. Here’s to the next 20 years!

Pride 2024

COPE Ontario celebrates Pride and supports 2SLGBTQI+ equality and justice! Show your support at an event later this month and throughout the summer.

• Thunder Pride (Various Events) - May 4 - June 23
• Pride Toronto (Various Events) - May 17- June 30
• Guelph Spring Pride - June 6-16
• Bay of Quinte Pride: Pride Parade & Pride in the Park - June 8
• Brockville Pride Parade - June 8
• Thunder Pride March - June 8
• West Nipissing Pride Parade - June 8
• West Nipissing Pride After party - June 8
• Kingston Pride Festival - June 8-16
• York Pride Sparkling Night - June 14
• Brantford Pride: Pride in the Park - June 15
• York Pride Parade - June 15
• York Parade & Pride on Riverwalk - June 15
• Senior Pride Toronto 2024: Be ________ - June 15
• Thunder Pride - Rise Up Fest and Parade - June 15
• Owen Sound Pride Parade - June 17
• Kenora Pride March and BBQ - June 22
• Pride Toronto March: My First Pride - June 30
• Fenelon Falls Pride - July 12
• Collingwood Pride Festival ( Various Events) - July 12-13
• Pride London Festival - July 12-31
• Pride London Festival - Victoria Park - July 19-21
• Muskoka Pride Week - July 19-28
• Sault Pridefest - Roary Day Parade Float - July 20
• Sault Pridefest - Flag Raising & Pride Walk - July 21
• Sault Pridefest - Loud & Proud - July 21
• Pride London 28th Annual London Pride Parade - July 21
• 1000 Island River Pride - June 21-23
• Simcoe County: FSP's 2023 Pride Season - July 24 - August 6
• Windsor-Essex Pride Festival - August 6-11
• Pride Manitoulin (Various Events) - August 9-11
• Hamilton: Strength with Pride - August 10
• Chatham-Kent (Various Events) – August 10-17
• Windsor-Essex Pride Parade - August 11
• Chatham-Kent Pride Flag Raising – August 12
• Chatham-Kent Pride Parade – August 17
• Minden Pride - August 22
• Ottawa: Capital Pride Parade - August 26
• Fierte Timmins Pride - September 9-15
• North Bay Pride Festival - September 11-15
• Peterbrough - Nogojiwanong Pride Week 2024 (Various Events) – September 20-29
• Peterbrough - Nogojiwanong Pride "Pride in the Park" – September 28
• Peterbrough - Nogojiwanong Pride "The Pride March/Parade" – September 28

 

COPE Fights for Homecare Workers

COPE joined other unions at Queen's Park to call on the Ford government to halt a plan that will cause further chaos in the home care sector – for both patients and workers. 

Bill 135 – rushed through the legislature with little oversight – demolishes existing governance structures and paves the way for privatization of vital health care services. 

The measure would dismantle the existing system of 14 Home Care and Community Support Services organizations across the province and turn them into one unwieldly structure. Unions have asked the government to consult with them on how to avoid the labour relations turmoil that will result. 

COPE Local 550 represents workers at Home Care and Community Support Services – Toronto. 

COPE Ontario Interim Director Glenn Wheeler (centre) joined OPSEU President JP Hornick, ONA President Erin Ariss, CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn and NDP Health Critic France Gelinas at a media conference at Queen's Park.

 

 

 

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