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The leaders of CUPE Local 79 and the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE signed a solidarity pact today, committing the organizations and their members to support one another in bargaining.CUPE Local 79’s 20,000 members are in bargaining now with the City of Toronto. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions has 42,000 members, over 10,000 ...

On December 11, 2019 — Local 79 President Dave Mitchell offered his feedback to the City of Toronto's Executive Committee on the commissioned Ernst & Young LLP (EY) 'Value-Based Outcomes Review' (VBOR). Dave told the committee that the VBOR fails to address the problem of long-term predictable and sustainable funding ...

Local 79 President Dave Mitchell has joined a group of academics, business leaders and experts in signing an open letter urging Waterfront Toronto, the organization administering the redevelopment of Toronto's waterfront, to show transparency in its private dealings with SideWalk Labs. The Google subsidiary has proposed plans to acquire public land ...