As PC MPPs returned to their constituency offices this week, they were met with daily pickets by community support workers with a clear message: No more funding crumbs; we need a piece of the pie!
Hundreds of OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario members took their funding demands to 23 province-wide locations to protest years of underfunding, unlivable wages, dangerously low staffing levels and program cuts in community services. This is the first of many actions to come in the joint union bargaining campaign Worth Fighting For.
Together, OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario represent over 50,000 workers in Ontario’s Broader Public Sector (BPS) community-based social services, health services and universities. With over 70 units in bargaining right now, workers are uniting to coordinate their bargaining strategy and are taking their fight directly to the funder – the provincial government!
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