Negotiators for Local 79 and the City of Toronto have reached a tentative contract agreement covering 8,600 part-time recreation employees. The two sides went back to the bargaining table today
CUPE Local 79’s Bargaining Committee is meeting this morning with City negotiators to discuss the rejection of the City’s contract offer by Local 79’s Recreation Workers Part-Time Unit. The meeting
Two CUPE Local 79 Bargaining Units have voted to reject the contract offers presented by the City’s negotiators. Local 79’s Bargaining Committee decided to present the City’s final offers directly
The union representing the majority of the City of Toronto employees has decided to submit the City’s final contract offer to a membership vote on Wednesday, March 28th. Tim Maguire,
March 21 is designated by the United Nations (UN) as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It’s a day observed all around the world to focus attention
Dear Fellow Local 79 Members: Bargaining Update – Our goal is to negotiate fair collective agreements without a strike. Local 79 members working for the City of Toronto are being
In a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty, CUPE Local 79 President, Tim Maguire, wants the Ontario government to act and put protections, laws, and enforcement in place to ensure that
On Wednesday, March 14th, 2012, Local 79 joined library workers from CUPE Local 4948 in a rally to show solidarity in their goal of reaching a fair negotiated contract with
“Migrant workers need protection, not exploitation,” Tim Maguire, CUPE Local 79 President, says in a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper after the tragic deaths of 10 migrant workers on
CUPE Local 79 President, Tim Maguire, thanks Councillor Bailão for her diligence and support in the fight to save living wage public service jobs from becoming low wage, poverty-level work.
