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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COPE Ontario and Young Workers Committee

The Young Workers Committee is looking for new members!

If you are 35 years of age or younger and a COPE Ontario member and interested to be part of this committee, please contact Siraz Kaur Chatha COPE Ontario VP of Young Workers (see inform below).

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

The COPE Ontario Executive Board took time of its meetings in Toronto to honour National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

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.

Feds must fund TTC cars

COPE Ontario joins the calls for the federal government to help fund new subway cars for the TTC's line 2. This would be an investment that makes sense from all angles – the TTC and its passengers, the environment and Canadian workers. Let's get moving! Click on link for article from CP24

https://www.cp24.com/news/doug-ford-and-unifor-call-on-feds-to-provide-cash-for-new-line-2-subway-trains-1.6949516

COPE Fights for Homecare Workers

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