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Rally at HHS
Come to Hamilton Health Sciences on Wednesday, December 13th, at lunchtime (11:30 – 1:00) and encourage the government to fully fund HHS!!!
Union calls on Ministry of Long-Term Care to investigate inadequate resident supplies, understaffing, unpaid staff obligations and deteriorating morale at Villa Marconi
Front-line personal support workers, nurses and other staff (CUPE 4793) at Villa Marconi whistle blow on their own employer about what they believe are multiple violations of Ontario’s long-term care
Health care workers to rally in Hamilton on Friday: CUPE calls on provincial government to fund care at Hamilton Health Sciences
Hamilton Health Sciences faces a $112 million deficit as hospitals reel under government underfunding
“Three paid sick days not enough,” say low-paid Chartwell Waterford front-line residential care staff advocating for better resident care:
Media conference/rally in Oakville Tuesday December 10
HEALTH CARE UNIONS OPPOSE REGISTRY TAX ON LOW-PAID PSWs AND INFRINGEMENT ON WORKER RIGHTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – SEIU Healthcare, the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE, and Unifor – union’s representing 140,000 health care...
Rally for Fair Wages And Respect
CUPE 5492 – Rally for Fair Wages and Respect! 12 pm on Dec 19 – Mount Sinai Hospital
Sick of second-class status: SickKids employees to rally for same pension plan as other Ontario hospital staff on Tuesday
SickKids is set to become the only hospital in Ontario that
doesn’t offer HOOPP
Founded in 1982, the 40,000 member Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE is the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario.
We represent hospital service workers, registered practical nurses, housekeeping, trades, clerical staff, and ambulance and paramedical personnel.
OCHU/CUPE bargains a provincial collective agreement for these CUPE Ontario members with the Ontario Hospital Association and lays that pattern down across the hospital sector and long-term care facilities that have a relationship with a hospital.
We also carry out advocacy on behalf of our members and on behalf of hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
OCHU/CUPE is an active partner with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition and works closely with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition whenever community health services are threatened with cuts or privatization.
registered practical nurses
ambulance and paramedical
Clerical
service
Trades
Federal Medicare Act Proclaimed Dec 19 1966
As healthcare workers every day we see the importance of Medicare. However, the system we have was something that took years to build. Originally healthcare was a business or a charity. Doctors owned small hospitals or religious groups established charities to care for the sick. Early in our history illnesses like Cholera, typhoid, smallpox devastated the population and forced governments to see they had a role to play in protecting and caring for citizens. Boards of heath were established, and health insurance (both private and public) became available to those with the means to pay. The system was failing Canadians.
Unions lobbied for government actions. In the 1960 Saskatchewan general election, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government of Tommy Douglas ran and was elected on a platform of implementing a universal health care plan…
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