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March 2025 Newsletter
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Walkerton residents will rally for real solutions after a 500-person family doctor queue disappoints
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWalkerton, ON – On the eve of the provincial election, a line-up of hospital stretchers outside South Bruce Grey Health Centre...
2025 ANNUAL CONVENTION
Press for information on the 42nd annual convention, April 28 – May 2, 2025.
Statement Outside St. Michael’s Hospital
February 24th at 10:00 a.m., CUPE will make a statement at St. Michael’s Hospital in response to the planned elimination of hundreds positions as provincial underfunding forces cuts
Opinion | Doug Ford has taken a wrecking ball to Hamilton health care
The starvation of public health care is not only widespread but deliberate.
Community Takes Protest to Save Its Hospitals to the TransCanada Highway: Thessalon Wages a Valiant Struggle to Save Its Hospital
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THESSALON, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Community members are waging a valiant struggle to save their hospital and restore its...

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.
registered practical nurses
ambulance and paramedical
Clerical
service
Trades
International Women’s Day March 8th
We all know that society is dependent of women, but society has not always allowed women full participation in it. Every step has required women to fight to be recognized and included as equal to men.
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