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Ontario Election 2025
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Fighting for a fair contract and better patient care
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It’s time to end pension discrimination at SickKids Hospital
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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
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Ford must answer for poor hospital privatization track record over last five years
New report tracks town-by-town how the Ford government’s private clinics scheme has created new inequalities, delays, higher costs and wasted local public hospitals’ resources
“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
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
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Union Leaders Jailed in the 1980s
Unionized public employees continually strugglefor rights other workers take for granted. In the 1980s the presidents of three public sector unions were sent to jail by governments because their members went on strike. CUPE President, Grace Hartman, and Ontario Division President, Lucy Nicholson, were sentenced to 45 days for the 1981 wildcat strike by Ontario hospital workers. Sean Flynn, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, was sentenced to 35 days for supporting his members
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