Keep up the pressure on the WSIB—Email Your MPP!

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The WSIB strike won’t end until Premier Ford’s government stops interfering in negotiations. MPPs have the power to pressure Ford—but they’ll only act if they hear from YOU.

OCEU CUPE 1750 workers are the backbone of Ontario’s workplace safety net. They guide injured workers through trauma, ensure families get support, and help people return to work. But with workloads doubling, training slashed in half, and $14.5M sent to Texas, they’re stretched to the breaking point.

Email your MPP now: Demand they tell Premier Ford to stop the interference and give workers the deal they deserve!

Ford & WSIB Are Failing Injured Workers—Stop the Strike NOW

Paramedics load an injured worker on to an ambulance

WSIB workers mark two weeks on strike as Ford government turns a blind eye to dangerous workloads and US outsourcing

3,600 members of the Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU/CUPE 1750), who support more than 5.6 million workers across Ontario, are now entering their second week on strike—the first full-scale work stoppage in the WSIB’s 110-year history.

Strike at WSIB stretches as employer dawdles

As the lockout at the WSIB approaches its second week, the WSIB management are dragging their heels on issuing a pass. The OCEU bargaining team issued a complete counterproposal back to the employer on June 1st but have yet to receive a fulsome response.

OCEU rallies outside workplace safety conference while WSIB plays pretend

Members of the OCEU/CUPE 1750 set up a picket line outside the New Horizons in Safety conference today. The conference, being held at the Hilton Toronto/Markham Suites Conference center, is meant to showcase leaders in occupational health and safety. Among the keynote speakers will be senior leaders from the WSIB, and Ontario’s Minister of Labour.

Picket Lines form at MPPs office in Pickering during WSIB Strike

Members of OCEU/CUPE 1750 formed a picket line today in front of MPP Peter Bethlenfalvy’s office. The union representing workers at the WSIB have been on strike since Thursday after their employer failed to come to the table with a proposal that would address the core issues of workload and workplace culture.

Amid “Team Canada” approach, WSIB contracts US firm

Despite the calls from the federal and provincial governments to put “elbows-up” in defence of Canadian sovereignty, Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is taking another approach. WSIB spent over $14.5 million on an American company known as BetterUp, a professional coaching service based in Austin, Texas, despite many homegrown options right here in Ontario.

WSIB to lay off workers and send Ontario money to US firm, betraying Team Canada tariff fight

You can’t find bourbon on LCBO shelves and Premier Doug Ford has threatened to cut off the power supply to the United States, but the leadership at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, WSIB, is outsourcing work to an American firm while cutting Canadian jobs.