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Nearly three in four Ontarians want provincial government to prioritize spending on public hospitals instead of private clinics: new poll
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Most people in Cornwall face reduced access to privatized hospital services
Nearly three in four Ontarians want provincial government to prioritize spending on public hospitals instead of private clinics: new poll
Ontarians want provincial government to prioritize spending on public hospitals not private clinics: new poll
Vast majority say there isn’t enough staff in public hospitals, including 82 per cent of Ontario PC supporters
Majority of Ontarians want provincial government to prioritize spending on public hospitals than private clinics: new poll
OCHU-CUPE media conference at 10:00 am on Monday to release full findings of new Nanos poll on privatization
Hospital spending on private staffing agencies shot up by 216 per cent in North Eastern Ontario: CCPA report
In the North East region, hospitals spent $71 million on agency staff in 2022-23
Hospital spending on private staffing agencies shot up by 216 per cent in North Eastern Ontario: CCPA report
Across Ontario, hospitals spent $9.2 billion on staffing agencies between 2013-14 and 2022-23
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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