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Unity Health Toronto Cutbacks
FUND UNITY HEALTH TORONTO Ontario’s health care crisis is deepening. Hospital workers, health care advocates, and community supporters are opposing...
March 2025 Newsletter
Click to access the February 2025 Newsletter – special election issue
End the Chaos, Build Home Care, Demand CUPE Ontario Health at Home Workers
CUPE Representatives to Expose Ford Government’s Home Care Failures
2025 ANNUAL CONVENTION
Press for information on the 42nd annual convention, April 28 – May 2, 2025.
Nurse Unseen – Film showing on April 12
The film explores the little known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic while facing a resurgence of Anti-Asian hate in the streets.
Opinion | Doug Ford has taken a wrecking ball to Hamilton health care
The starvation of public health care is not only widespread but deliberate.
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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April 23, 1956 – Founding of the Canadian Labour Congress
As workers come together to form unions those unions too come together in solidarity. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is a union of unions. It is also referred to as the “House of Labour” because unions all join under one roof. The uniting of unions goes a long way back to the 1860s and 70s…
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