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POSTPONED: Car rally – University Health Network, Toronto

Apr 6, 2021 | Activism, Rallies

Call for human rights inquiry into systemic discrimination against the elderly in Ontario hospitals and long-term care

Mar 16, 2021 | Activism, Long-term care

Respect Us, Protect Us, Pay Us.

Mar 7, 2021 | Activism, Health and Safety

OCHU Annual Convention 2021

Feb 12, 2021 | Conferences, Events

Online via Zoom
Voting by Data on the Spot
Convention begins at 7 p.m. April 26

2021 Regional RPN meetings

Feb 10, 2021 | Events, Nursing

Online via Zoom
Registration: $25 per participant

HOOPP teleconference call – April 14

Apr 9, 2021 | HOOPP

Covering new improvements to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan. With HOOPP CEO Jeff Wendling, and CUPE Trustees Sharon Richer and Louis Rodrigues.
7:20 PM EST, April 14

POSTPONED: Car rally – University Health Network, Toronto

Apr 6, 2021 | Activism, Rallies

Demand University Health Network make its Hillcrest site staff hospital employees.
190 Elizabeth St. Meet at 10:30 a.m. at the USWA Hall (25 Cecil St) for flags.

Newsletter – April 6

Apr 6, 2021 | Newsletters

Face mask recall, RPN regional meeting, Pension plan improvements

Health care workers rally at Queen’s Park drive-by action: No more temporary fixes, tomorrow’s Ontario budget must include respect, protection and pay for dedicated front-line staff

Mar 23, 2021 | Activism, Media Releases

Ahead of tomorrow’s budget in Ontario, hospital, and long-term care workers, who have borne the worst of pandemic risks in the last year, surrounded Queen’s Park in a drive-by action with a clear message for Premier Doug Ford and his finance minister: Respect Us. Protect Us. Pay Us.

Years of systemic ageism in health policies contributed to more than 280 Ottawa long-term care residents dying of COVID-19; Ontario human rights inquiry needed

Mar 17, 2021 | Media Releases

Years of systemic ageism in Ontario’s health system that treats the elderly as though their right to care is lesser than others contributed to more than 280 Ottawa long-term care residents dying from COVID-19 in the last year, say advocates who yesterday asked the Human Rights Commission for a ground-breaking probe.

Letter to Ministers of LTC and Health regarding Cedarcroft Place Retirement Residence

Mar 17, 2021 | Long-term care

Download the letter.

Call for human rights inquiry into systemic discrimination against the elderly in Ontario hospitals and long-term care

Mar 16, 2021 | Activism, Long-term care

The Advocacy Centre for Elderly (ACE), the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are calling on the Ontario Human Rights Commission to conduct a landmark inquiry into the provincial government’s long-standing policies of ‘de-hospitalization’, and rationing levels of care and access to long-term care, that disproportionately hurt the elderly.