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Toronto child care workers on picket lines after being locked out by Ideal Child Service Group

Child care workers at Ideal Child Service Group (ICSG) represented by CUPE 2484 are on picket lines today after the employer locked out its workers and refused to negotiate a fair collective agreement with its workers that appropriately recognizes the value of their work and reflects the reality of the high cost of living in Toronto.

Thunder Bay library workers and supporters urge management to protect library services by negotiating a fair deal

Thunder Bay Public Library (TBPL) workers and their supporters held a media conference today in front of the library’s Waverley branch, urging the library board to negotiate a fair deal and help avert a strike.

Child care advocates bring concerns over cuts to Yorkton

CUPE Saskatchewan and Child Care Now brought the conversation about the future of child care in Saskatchewan to Yorkton on October 1 as part of their ongoing series of public town halls across the province.

Temporary relief as Ontario child care deal extended, but advocates call agreement a “deeply ill-judged compromise”

Child care advocates, early childhood educators, and parents are expressing a mixture of relief and severe frustration following the announcement of a four-year extension to the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) agreement that sets no new targets to strengthen or expand the system.

Photo of early childhood educator and two children making paintings

Canada-Ontario agreement lacks urgency, ambition needed to deliver the promise of $10-a-day child care

After years of missed targets, today’s announcement of a four-year extension of the Canada-Ontario Early Learning and Child Care Agreement is a relief for families and the child care sector in Ontario - but falls short of the ambition needed to build the affordable, accessible and high-quality system Ontario families were promised.

CUPE 2484 - Toronto Child Care Workers Union

Tell Ideal Child Services Group: End the strike!

We are CUPE Local 2484 members who work at Ideal Child Services Group (ICSG) in Toronto. We are currently fighting for a fair agreement that addresses the high cost of living and supports quality childcare, consistency and stability for the children we care for. We have been on strike since October...

CUPE Manitoba supports free daycare for low-income families

Manitoba’s largest union announced their support for the Government of Manitoba’s initiative providing free child care to low-income families.

CUPE 4449 secures wage protections in new agreement amid child care cuts

CUPE 4449 members ratified a new agreement with Glencairn Child Care Co-operative on Wednesday, August 5.

Picnic in the park highlights need to protect child care

CUPE Saskatchewan hosted an information table at a Picnic in the Park to Save Child Care on Saturday, August 8. Organized by the Saskatchewan NDP, the picnic highlighted the need to protect and strengthen Saskatchewan’s child care system.

Villa Marconi engaged in union busting as agency staff are hired to fill union positions

The union representing staff at Ottawa’s Villa Marconi is calling out their employer’s union-busting tactics after discovering agency staff filling in for laid-off union members. Members in the laundry department were unceremoniously laid off by management in June, leaving the department short-staffed and under-resourced.