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CUPE slams nursing cuts at St. Joseph’s Hamilton as hospital reels under budget deficit
Insufficient government funding is forcing hospitals to reduce frontline staff
Birchmount Hospital Rally
A $36 million funding shortfall is putting patient care at risk, leading to longer waits, hallway medicine, and delayed surgeries. Stand with health care workers and demand proper hospital funding.
Big PSW rally planned for Doug Ford’s office July 8 to demand regulatory reforms in face of threat to workers’ livelihoods
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEEtobicoke, ON – Personal support worker and president of CUPE 132 Tera Engley is deeply apprehensive about Ontario’s new PSW...
Health care workers to protest outside MPP Greg Rickford’s office tomorrow to demand more hospital funding
ER wait-times at Lake of the Woods District Hospital increased 62 per cent over five years amid funding and staffing shortfall
Fiscal Advisory Committee
Senior Research Officer Doug Allan will lead a series of regional workshops to help local leaders better understand hospital budgets and to participate fully in budget meetings.
Five-year trend shows ER wait-times continue to increase at Simcoe County hospitals amid funding shortfall: CCPA report
Provincial underfunding is undermining timely access to hospital services, says author of new report
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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