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Union begins hospital contract talks for 45,000 hospital workers today
Nurse-to-patient ratios, job security in the age of AI, and compensation are the union’s key priorities
How does it feel as a healthcare worker when you’re unable to provide quality care?
“It’s having that constant dread on your mind of being, did I even do enough?” says OCHU RPN Rachel Fleming when describing the moral injury nursing staff face when confronted with unconscionable workloads. She advocates for nurse to patient ratios to insure proper care be given to all patients in their vulnerable time.
Nurse-to-patient ratios save lives and reduce staff burnout, says new academic study
Authors urge Ontario hospitals to implement safe staffing ratios
Nurse-to-patient ratios save lives and reduce staff burnout, says new academic study
Authors urge Ontario hospitals to implement safe staffing ratios
Nurse-to-patient ratios save lives and reduce staff burnout, says new academic study
Authors urge Ontario hospitals to implement safe staffing ratios
“Nursing ratios save lives:” new study recommends Ontario government mandate safe nurse staffing levels in hospitals
Full results of the study to be revealed at press conference in London on August 19
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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