Your Job Your Community Your Vote

Municipal elections are just around the corner! That’s why we’re getting the word out on “Your Job, Your Community, Your Vote”, the new campaign from Ontario Municipal Workers (OMW) that puts public services and the people who deliver them front and centre ahead of the 2026 Ontario Municipal Elections.

CUPE members are the backbone of our communities—keeping them clean, safe, and running every single day. But their jobs, and the services we all rely on, are under threat from understaffing and privatization. This campaign is about changing that. We’re telling real stories, building local pride, and mobilizing voters to stand up for strong, publicly delivered services.

Leading up to the 2026 Ontario municipal elections, the campaign will engage and empower CUPE locals and their members to become active participants in defending public services—at the ballot box, in their workplaces, and in their communities.

The campaign will also work to identify and endorse municipal candidates across the province who believe in the value of public services and good, union jobs to elect worker-friendly councils across the province.

When workers thrive, communities thrive. This is your job, your community, and your vote—let’s use it to protect what matters.

Join us for a webinar where we dive deeper into the campaign and ways that YOU can get involved ahead of the municipal elections!

📆: Thursday, July 9, 2026
🕖: 7:00PM
📍: Online via Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HQVvdDnvRS-0vxCEB-xGrg#/registration

Solidarity and Season’s Greetings from CUPE!

In 2025, from east to west and north to south, we have once again demonstrated the power of workers when we stand together, and the importance of public services for our communities. Our power comes from our members, our activists, and our leaders. For all you have done to make our union a stronger voice for working people – thank you. On behalf of our 800,000 members from coast to coast to coast, we wish you and your family the very best for this holiday season and 2026.

OMERS Reforms

The recommendations that came out of the OMERS governance review were, by and large, good for union plan members and for OMERS as a whole. The proposed changes would have restored the sponsors at OMERS as a true bargaining board and ensured that plan members retained their voice and vote share in a jointly sponsored plan.

But when the Conservative government buried governance changes to OMERS in its omnibus Bill 68, it cherry-picked which recommendations to implement. Specifically, it chose to re-impose on the members of the new Sponsors Council a fiduciary duty to members and employers – the very thing the review rightly identifies as the problem.

The Conservatives also ignore other important recommendations and suggest further changes would be made by regulation. This could put more of OMERS’ governance under direct government control.

Every union represented in the plan agrees: these parts of Bill 68 won’t be good for plan members or for OMERS itself.

Click to send a message to Rob Flack, the minister responsible for OMERS, and demand that he implement the recommendations of the review to protect the plan and the voices of its members.

London councillors vote for 35% pay raise

On Tuesday, the majority of councillors said YES to a huge pay raise. Voting in favour of the motion was:

Josh Morgan, Shawn Lewis, Hadleigh McAlister, Peter Cuddy, Jerry Pribal, Steve Lehman, Skylar Franke, Elizabeth Peloza and Steve Hilliar.

Make a plan to vote in the next Municipal Election, your voice can trounce self-indulgence.