KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
Capacity and privatization in Ontario Hospitals
The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals, shows that this crisis is not unavoidable
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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.
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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
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“Stop the cuts at Bruyere Health:” CUPE to present worker-community petition to hospital management at rally on September 10
CUPE has collected 1,400 petition signatures from hospital workers and community supporters in defense of frontline care
CUPE, ONA and OPSEU to rally against 101 job cuts at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital in Ottawa, as provincial hospital funding cuts hit patient care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOTTAWA – In July, the Queensway-Carleton announced that it would be cutting 101 jobs at the hospital, including 87 nurses,...
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