KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
Not Adding Up: Surgical and Diagnostic Privatization in Ontario
More public money is going to for-profit care. Are patients getting faster access?
Capacity and privatization in Ontario Hospitals
The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals, shows that this crisis is not unavoidable
LATEST NEWSLETTER
September 2026 – Rally at Queensway-Carleton
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.
Latest News
Workplace Violence in Health Care: OCHU-CUPE Member Survey
OCHU-CUPE, in partnership with the University of Guelph, invites members aged 18 and older to participate in a research study on workplace violence in health care
Stop the cuts at Hamilton Health Sciences
Please come and help us defend our patients from the Ford government’s hospital cuts!
How the Ford government’s private clinics are taking away from local public hospitals
Research reportOntario Hospital PrivatizationPublic hospital capacity remains underused while Ontario directs public funding toward private clinics...
Personal Support Workers Rally on September 22
We’re rallying to call on the Ford government to change the legislation governing the HSCPOA and ensure PSWs have the right to representation and fair due process in disciplinary matters.
CUPE 1909 Rally
Join us demanding appropriate funding from the Ford government to ensure Safe Staffing at Ross Memorial Hospital!
Rally to stop the cuts at Bruyere Health
CUPE will present worker-community petition to hospital management at rally on September 10
PSW Zoom Call
PSW Zoom Call on Sept 10th, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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
Morale declines at Ross Memorial Hospital as funding cuts take toll on staff and patient care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELindsay, ON – Recent staffing changes at Ross Memorial Hospital have created unsafe conditions for workers and patients, say...
Ontario patient wait times increase as government funding favours for-profit providers while Lakeridge Health infrastructure is under-utilized
Using public hospital infrastructure would be a more efficient use of tax dollars instead of spending on private clinics: CCPA & CUPE
Ontario patient wait times increase as government funding favours for-profit providers while Kingston hospital infrastructure is under-utilized
The province spent $4 billion over eight years as private facility funding increases faster than for hospitals
Ontario patient wait times increase as government funding favours for-profit providers while Ottawa hospital infrastructure is under-utilized
The province spent $4 billion over eight years as private facility funding increases faster than for hospitals
Ontario patient wait times increase as government funding favours for-profit providers while Thunder Bay hospital infrastructure is under-utilized
The province spent $4 billion over eight years as private facility funding increases faster than for hospitals
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