CUPE Local 2318

04/24/2023

2318 Green Team tree planters for 2023 🌳🌳

11/04/2022

Come on out and make your voice heard!

11/04/2022

11/04/2022

Today 55,000 education workers strike for a better wage, better working conditions and for the betterment of the education system and it’s students.

CUPE 2318 stands with CUPE Education workers! See you on the picket lines!

03/10/2021

Periods are a fact of life. They are also expensive, and there’s no way around it. Did you know that women living in low-income are sometimes forced to choose between putting food on the table and affording menstrual hygiene products? The COVID-19 pandemic has had a larger impact on women living in low-income and the need for these necessary products remains high.

To help meet the need, United Way and Windsor and District Labour Council came together for a Tampon Tuesday Drive-Thru drop off collection event. Essex County Library workers answered the call for donations and I think we put together a pretty good haul!

03/02/2021

Please take a moment to read, sign and share!

Essex Town Council is embarking on a highly-concerning new plan to extend library hours without any staff present at the McGregor branch.

10/09/2019

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaking to CUPE workers from all over Canada. Don’t forget to vote on October 21st!

06/25/2019

05/22/2019

Tonight is the night! We will be having a delegation in front of the Library Board to discuss the provincial budget cuts that have already impacted services at Essex County Library. It's at 7pm at the Tecumseh branch and it is open to the public. If you care about your libraries please come out in support. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/04/21/ontario-library-cuts_a_23715110/?fbclid=IwAR3h899MGenwxpSAqIFhAorDjqs49z7t7cV_G499EIrtI63WmhM3tidaWvw

05/15/2019

As you have undoubtedly heard, the Ford government has made significant cuts to the Southern Ontario Library system and the Ontario Library Services North.
These cuts are horrible for library services province wide but are affecting us here in Essex County by eliminating our InterLibrary Loan service.
CUPE 2974 will be delegating to the Essex County LIbrary Board meeting, Thursday May 22, at 7pm at the Tecumseh Branch.
If you care about your library system please come out to the meeting and let them know. We hope to see you there!
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/04/21/ontario-library-cuts_a_23715110/

04/28/2019

Do what you can to get the public Health Nurses back to work.
Go to this link and submit the form - it will generate the letter automatically.Click the link under "show your support" a new page will appear - fill in the 4 boxes and press "add your voice".
https://www.ona.org/…/fairness-for-windsor-essex-county-h…/…

Also use the same link and on the right hand side of the page , just down a little, listen the radio recordings that tell you why we are important to our community. Help us get back to work. The Health Unit will not even talk to us (we asked last week through the mediator and they said, "NO"!) they also refused an arbitrator (a objective third party who could solve this immediately).

04/26/2019

Throughout my ever-morphing career as a Books Person, I have been lucky enough to work in many different professional roles. I've been a design assistant at a university press, an editorial intern at an indie publisher, a publicist at one of the Big…

04/20/2019

Doug Ford and his PC government have cut funding to The Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) and Ontario Library Service - North (OLS-North) by 50% or more. This will result in the loss of even more jobs and, more importantly, it reduces library services to those who need them the most - small rural library systems, remote Northern systems and yes, even services to us here in Windsor/Essex.
Please sign the petition and email the Minister of Tourism and Culture Michael Tibolo [email protected] and Premier Doug Ford https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/…/fee…/default.aspx
to tell them you don't agree with these cuts.

98 signatures are still needed!

04/18/2019

Don't be fooled by claims of redundancy.
Our paramedic services already serve "regions" as opposed to "cities". Amalgamating to yet bigger regions will result in service decline and could start the slippery slope of more and more privatization.
Let your MPP know that your emergency services should NOT be cut - in any way.

The Ford government plans to merge the 59 local ambulance services in Ontario into just 10, CBC News has learned.

04/18/2019

Libraries are the only public service that is completely free, there is no requirement for use, no financial investment needed. And as such they are most important to marginalized members of society, especially lower income.
Doug Ford and his PC party are now coming after libraries...and their cuts will affect services at libraries across Ontario.
Let your MPP know you don't want these cuts.

Southern Ontario Library Service says its budget will be reduced by just over half, as well as the Ontario Library Service-North.