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We can’t ignore the health care crisis!
In an effort to publicize the need for additional beds and staff and funding for our hospitals and long-term care facilities, OCHU is traveling across the province to 30 communities, with a number of hospital stretchers, along with pull-up banners with stats, which we use as a backdrop for media conferences calling on all parties to address the crisis in health care.
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside Joseph Brant Hospital on Thursday afternoon at 1 pm
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside Sudbury Health Sciences North, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside Sudbury Health Sciences North on Wednesday afternoon at 2 pm
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside North Bay General Hospital, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside North Bay General Hospital on Wednesday morning at 10 am
SICK KIDS HOOPP PENSION WEBINAR TOMORROW – FEB 5, 6-7PM
On Wednesday, February 5th from 6-7pm, CUPE, ONA and OPSEU are hosting a webinar about the HOOPP pension plan with:
Pension lawyer David Sworn from Goldblatt Partners
Michael Hurley, OCHU-CUPE President and HOOPP Settler and
Sharon Richer, OCHU-CUPE Secretary-Treasurer and HOOPP Trustee.
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside Northumberland Hills Hospital, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside Northumberland Hills Hospital on Tuesday afternoon at 2 pm
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside Queensway Carleton, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside the Queensway Carleton on Monday morning at 10am

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
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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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