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Ontario’s hospital privatization plan ‘not adding up’ as public funding on for-profit clinics balloons, local hospital capacity is under-utilized and wait-times increase: new CCPA Report
OCHU-CUPE & CCPA press conference in Sudbury at 2 p.m. Saturday
Ontario’s hospital privatization plan ‘not adding up’ as public funding on for-profit clinics balloons, local hospital capacity is under utilized and wait-times increase: new CCPA Report
OCHU-CUPE & CCPA press conference in Windsor at 10 a.m. Wednesda
Ontario’s hospital privatization plan ‘not adding up’ as public funding on for-profit clinics balloons while wait-times increase: new CCPA Report
Report to be released at 10 a.m. Monday at Queen’s Park
CUPE to launch major fightback campaign against Hamilton hospital staffing cuts
CUPE 7800 will hold a press conference outside McMaster Children’s Hospital at 12 p.m. on Friday
Stop the cuts at Hamilton Health Sciences
Please come and help us defend our patients from the Ford government’s hospital cuts!
CUPE to fight 413 job cuts at Hamilton Health Sciences, calls on the province to fully cover hospital’s operational cost
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEHamilton, ON – Hamilton Health Sciences’ plan to eliminate 413 jobs would further undermine services at a hospital already...
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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