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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Stop Violence in School

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Healthcare Privitization

Healthcare Privitization

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The Ford government has passed Bill-60 which is an unlawful attack on Ontario's public healthcare. 

 

Bill-60 allows the government to open private, for-profit hospitals, clinics and facilities which will make wealth, rather than medical need, the determining factor for treatment.  

This violates the Canada Health Act which states that healthcare in Canada exists to "protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers." 

Healthcare privatization in Ontario is a  threat to accessibility, equity, quality of care, and public accountability. In order to prioritize patient well-being over profits, we must fight for a publicly funded and universally accessible healthcare system. Together, we can  safeguard a healthcare system that serves ALL Ontarians equitably and effectively.

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Tell Doug Ford and his government to keep their hands off of our public healthcare! 

Updates

THE LONG ROAD TO RECONCILIATION

On this coming Monday, many of us will be wearing orange shirts in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and all that it represents about the tragic history of residential schools.

Residential schools are not a problem of the past, but a profound wrong that lives in the present through the trauma created by an official policy of our governments that was rooted in attempted cultural genocide – a policy to destroy Indigenous cultures and identity forever.

Some of us have the day off, others will be working. Many of us will be attending special events, either through work or in the community.

Wherever we may find ourselves, let us make it a day of reflection in which we remember the thousands of young people who were torn away from their families and communities, and acknowledge how far we have yet to go on the long road to reconciliation.

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