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Click to see the youtube video CUPE 7800 created talking about the crisis of hallway healthcare and the need for public healthcare funding!
With its hospital closed, Minden is a symbol of the health care crisis facing rural Ontario communities
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside Minden Hospital on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. – Will call for Minden hospital to reopen
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre stretched to the limit: Line-up of gurneys symbolize health care crisis facing Ontario communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBarrie, ON – On the eve of the provincial election, a line-up of hospital stretchers outside Barrie’s Royal Victoria Regional...
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Hamilton General Hospital stretched to the limit: Line-up of gurneys symbolize health care crisis facing Ontario communities
OCHU-CUPE will hold a media conference outside Hamilton General Hospital on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
West Parry Sound Health Centre stretched to the limit: Line-up of gurneys symbolize health care crisis facing Ontario communities
OCHU-CUPE will hold a media conference outside West Parry Sound Health Centre on Monday at 3:00 p.m.
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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