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CANCELLED – January 22 – 23, 2026, Intro to the CUPE Hospital Agreement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEHello everyone, We have decided to cancel the 'Introduction to the CUPE Hospital Agreement' session scheduled for January...
Nurses and PSWs among 15 job cuts at Royal Ottawa Place long-term care home
CUPE denounces Ford government for cutting health care funding, to hold rally on Monday morning
Rally Against the Health Care Cuts
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Health care workers decry 38 layoffs at Perley Health in Ottawa, to hold rally on Wednesday afternoon
Workers are sounding the alarm as provincial funding shortfall drives staffing cuts
Fight the Cuts to Mental Health Care at the Royal Ottawa Hospital – Jan 12
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Rally to Stop the Cuts at Perley Health – Jan 7th
Resident care is at risk as Perley Health plans to cut 34 jobs due to government underfunding. Let’s fight these cuts and protect seniors’ health 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.
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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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