KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
LATEST NEWSLETTER
May 2026 – Bargaining Updates
Driven to the Brink
A new report warns that the turn to health care cutbacks in Ontario harken to the period of Mike Harris, as hundreds of job cuts ravage hospitals across the province.
PSW CAMPAIGN
Join the fight for PSWs to be treated with dignity and respect. New Regulatory Proposal Denies PSWs Basic Rights to Due Process and Representation.
NURSE-TO-PATIENT RATIOS STUDY
Major study calls on Ford to legislate nurse to patient ratios.
OCHU/CUPE BARGAINING
Stay up to date on recent bargaining awards, arbitrations, and bulletins.
Hollowed out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies
A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies.
Latest News
Birchmount Hospital Rally
A $36 million funding shortfall is putting patient care at risk, leading to longer waits, hallway medicine, and delayed surgeries. Stand with health care workers and demand proper hospital funding.
PSW Rally May 19, 10:30 AM at Doug Ford’s Office
Please help protest regulation of personal support workers that denies them the basic rights accorded every other profession in Ontario
Rally Against the Health Care Cuts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOther Articles
The funds hospitals use to pay day-to-day bills have plummeted by $2.2 billion since 2020, says new report
Rapidly increasing costs, austerity funding policies and record 1,300 job cuts push Ontario’s hospitals beyond the brink
Ford infrastructure announcement for Scarborough Health Network leaves hospital facing cuts to staff and services in its underfunded operating budget – CUPE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – Just a week after Scarborough Health Network (SHN) workers held a rally surrounding chronic understaffing...
The funds hospitals use to pay day-to-day bills have plummeted by $2.2 billion since 2020, says new report
Rapidly increasing costs, austerity funding policies and record 1,300 job cuts push Ontario’s hospitals beyond the brink
“We are breaking under the cuts”: Scarborough hospital workers call on Ford government to increase funding in the face of $36 million deficit
Scarborough Health Network workers held a rally on July 27th amidst staffing shortages and growing violence in the workplace
“We are breaking under the cuts”: Scarborough hospital workers call on Ford government to increase funding in the face of $36 million deficit
Scarborough Health Network workers to rally on July 27th amidst staffing shortages and growing violence in the workplace
Queensway Carleton to eliminate 101 jobs as Ontario hospital funding cuts continue
Cuts of nurses, personal care aides, and housekeepers as unions announce rally to demand adequate funding
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