Union Leaders Call for Immediate Action on Laurentian Crisis
SUDBURY, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Union leaders representing thousands of Sudbury working families will hold a news conference Thursday to outline immediate measures needed to address the crisis at Laurentian University and throughout the post-secondary education system.
| WHO: | Leaders of several Sudbury unions | |
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| WHAT: | News conference calling for immediate action on Laurentian crisis | |
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| WHEN: | Thursday, April 15, 2021, 12:00 noon | |
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| WHERE: | To be held via Zoom meeting, at https://laurentian.zoom.us/j/94421233435 |
Union leaders will lay out the devastating short-term and long-term effects of the program cuts at Laurentian, including the profound impact on students and the damage to businesses and to economic and social development in Sudbury and other northern communities that will lose hundreds of jobs and tens of millions in annual economic activity.
The union representatives also will outline solutions that must be taken to address the crisis at Laurentian and in the post-secondary education system overall.
Unions to be represented at Thursday’s news conference include:
Canada Employment and Immigration Union
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Northeastern Building Trades Council
Ontario Public Service Employees Union
Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation
Sudbury and District Labour Council
United Steelworkers
NOTE: Union representatives will be available for media questions during the Zoom conference and for interviews afterwards, in English and French.
Contacts
Mike Bellerose, President, Sudbury and District Labour Council and CUPE Local 4705, 705-507-6730, [email protected]
