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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 London Health Sciences, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside London Health Sciences Centre (the Victoria Hospital) on Friday morning at 10am
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
Stretched to the limit: hospital union to line-up gurneys outside Peterborough Regional Health Centre, drawing attention to the health care crisis
OCHU-CUPE to hold media conference outside PRHC on Thursday at 10am as
hospital runs at 102 per cent capacity
Stretcher Tour Schedule
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.
Mount Sinai clerical staff to rally outside hospital at 12pm today, demanding fair wages and decent working conditions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – Today, the predominantly female clerical workers at Mount Sinai will be rallying outside the hospital for an...
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
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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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