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This Month in Labour History

In Nov 1921 British Columbia passed Canada’s first maternity leave legislation. Women were able to take six weeks leave before and after giving birth. It was unpaid leave, but no other Canadian jurisdiction had maternity leave protection. Without legislation pregnant woman was often required to quit her job.

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Trojan Horse Tour Schedule

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.

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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

In Nov 1921 British Columbia passed Canada’s first maternity leave legislation. Women were able to take six weeks leave before and after giving birth. It was unpaid leave, but no other Canadian jurisdiction had maternity leave protection. Without legislation pregnant woman was often required to quit her job.

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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