Category: Media Releases
March 27 Media Release
TORONTO – The increase in hospital funding announced yesterday is not enough to ease the...
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March 25, 2024, Media Release
TORONTO – Annual funding for Ontario’s hospitals must increase by at least eight per cent in this...
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March 4th Media Release
TORONTO – In just six years, the average wages earned by workers in the female-dominated sectors...
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Women’s Wages and the attack on Broader Public Sector Workers
Since the Ford government came to power in 2018 there has been an attack on the wages of workers in the broader public sector. This is also an attack on women’s wages. The result is that women’s wages have been eroded in the leading sector of women’s work. Read to learn more ->
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Feb 21 Media Release
OTTAWA – Health care workers represented by CUPE 870 rallied outside the Perley and Rideau...
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Statement on Bill 124 ruling
Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE); Sharleen Stewart, president of SEIU Healthcare; and Kelly-Anne Orr, assistant to the national officers of Unifor released the following joint statement today in response to the Court of Appeal ruling on Bill 124:
“We are pleased to see the Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the Superior Court that Bill 124 was unconstitutional. This is a win for all hardworking families who are trying to get ahead and all unions who fought on their behalf to protect the rights of all workers to freely bargain a collective agreement.
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The Hospital Crisis: No Capacity, No Plan, No End
Capacity and Privatization in Ontario Hospitals – Regional reports Toronto, ON...
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Hospital workers rally across Toronto to demand Unity Health CEO push back against Ford government privatization scheme
Workers from hospitals across Toronto held a series of rallies today outside St. Joseph’s Health Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, and Providence Healthcare to speak out against the Ford government’s plan to privatize hospital services.
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Ontario Health Coalitions announce first 500 voting stations in the people’s referendum: Advocates are gearing up in advance of the final vote on Bill 60
Ontario & Toronto Health Coalitions held a press conference outside of the Toronto General...
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Save Canada's Healthcare Campaign
Stop violence against hospital workers
