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DISCUSSING HOW REGULATIONS UNDER THE HSCPOA RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT DUE PROCESS
Trojan Horse Tour Schedule
OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition are kicking off a multi-community tour to push to keep surgeries in our public hospitals. The tour involves a giant wooden Trojan Horse, which is a metaphor for a gift which looks attractive, but which is actually very dangerous.
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Friday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead
Planned staffing review at Hamilton Health Sciences will lead to cuts, warns CUPE, as hospital deficit mounts due to government underfunding
The Ford government has committed to covering only a fraction of hospital’s operating costs
“We are fighting for respect and fairness:” clerical staff at Mount Sinai to rally on Tuesday morning
Staff are demanding the hospital negotiate a contract that offers fair wages and better working conditions
Giant Trojan Horse visits Hawkesbury & District General Hospital as OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition protest privatization of hospital services
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead
“We can’t afford more hospital cuts in Hamilton:” CUPE 7800 rings the alarm as large fiscal deficit at Hamilton Health Sciences prompts staffing review
Union to hold media conference in Hamilton on Monday morning
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Cornwall Community Hospital on Monday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Cornwall, ON – On Monday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Cornwall Community Hospital, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
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.
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The Struggle for Maternity Protection Law
If governments were going to be slow to act, workers unions would have to. In 1964 maternity leave for six months without loss of seniority negotiated by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at New Brunswick Health Centre. In 1968 CUPE presented to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women calling for women’s equality, childcare, maternity leave, and job protection.
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