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34 St Patrick St,
Toronto, ON M5T 1V1

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Join us for our Black History Month celebration on Saturday, February 28, from 4–7 pm at 25 Cecil Street.
This year’s theme is Celebrating the Power of Black Organizing.
MC: Liam Tyndall
Keynote speakers: Robyn Maynard and Rania El-Mugammar

Frontline workers at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital are raising serious concerns about patient safety, staffing, and working conditions — and they aren’t being heard.

Service workers who keep the hospital running cannot afford to live in the city they serve. Nurses are expected to perform unpaid work to protect patient safety. Workers report rising assaults, equipment failures, and delayed repairs. At the same time, management has walked away from negotiations, relying on arbitration instead of addressing these issues at the table.

This is not good-faith bargaining — and it puts patient care at risk. Be an ally and join workers this Monday to demand action from the Sinai Health Board.

Send a letter to the Sinai Health Board using the QR code on the second slide!

As many of us plan to avoid dangerous snowy conditions and traffic chaos tomorrow by working from home, thousands of City workers will still make the trek in to work to keep critical City services running. They will ensure Toronto residents continue to access the services they rely on.

We thank them and owe them our commitment to their safety.

We are heartbroken to confirm that one of our members, a City of Toronto recreation worker, died early this morning while at work at the Oakridge Community Recreation Centre.
 We mourn the loss of a colleague and extend our deepest condolences to their loved ones and coworkers. 
This tragedy also demands answers. It is deeply troubling that this worker was working alone. The City of Toronto has a Working Alone policy intended to protect workers and ensure immediate assistance in the event of an emergency. CUPE Local 79 will be working with the City of Toronto to ensure that this policy is enforced and whether it is adequate to protect workers.

No worker should be isolated, unprotected, or placed in a situation where help is not immediately available. Worker safety is non-negotiable. 
We honour our fellow member by insisting that every worker comes home safe at the end of their shift.

CUPE Local 79 members showed up at Toronto’s No to Hate rally this past weekend — because that’s what union members do! When hate tries to divide us, we organize.

Thank you to Community Solidarity Toronto, @labourcouncil and the @uarrcanada , and all the organizers who brought people together to say: hate has no place in our city.

Behind every winter storm… are Toronto’s team of Transportation Infrastructure Patrollers (TIPs) — monitoring road and weather conditions and activating snow-clearing operations so crews know when and where to go.

TIPs help coordinate plows, salters, sidewalk and bike-lane clearing, and make sure our roads stay safe and passable through the storm. Big thanks for keeping our city moving!

Join us for our Black History Month celebration on Saturday, February 28, from 4–7 pm at 25 Cecil Street.
This year’s theme is Celebrating the Power of Black Organizing.
MC: Liam Tyndall
Keynote speakers: Robyn Maynard and Rania El-Mugammar

Frontline workers at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital are raising serious concerns about patient safety, staffing, and working conditions — and they aren’t being heard.

Service workers who keep the hospital running cannot afford to live in the city they serve. Nurses are expected to perform unpaid work to protect patient safety. Workers report rising assaults, equipment failures, and delayed repairs. At the same time, management has walked away from negotiations, relying on arbitration instead of addressing these issues at the table.

This is not good-faith bargaining — and it puts patient care at risk. Be an ally and join workers this Monday to demand action from the Sinai Health Board.

Send a letter to the Sinai Health Board using the QR code on the second slide!

As many of us plan to avoid dangerous snowy conditions and traffic chaos tomorrow by working from home, thousands of City workers will still make the trek in to work to keep critical City services running. They will ensure Toronto residents continue to access the services they rely on.

We thank them and owe them our commitment to their safety.

We are heartbroken to confirm that one of our members, a City of Toronto recreation worker, died early this morning while at work at the Oakridge Community Recreation Centre.
 We mourn the loss of a colleague and extend our deepest condolences to their loved ones and coworkers. 
This tragedy also demands answers. It is deeply troubling that this worker was working alone. The City of Toronto has a Working Alone policy intended to protect workers and ensure immediate assistance in the event of an emergency. CUPE Local 79 will be working with the City of Toronto to ensure that this policy is enforced and whether it is adequate to protect workers.

No worker should be isolated, unprotected, or placed in a situation where help is not immediately available. Worker safety is non-negotiable. 
We honour our fellow member by insisting that every worker comes home safe at the end of their shift.

CUPE Local 79

Keeping Toronto at its best is what gets us up every morning. The work is worth it. And so are we.

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