Category: Members
Retroactive Pay Information for Members
Nov 21, 2022
Central Award Arbitration Updates: November 2022
Nov 9, 2022
Register for OCHU’s 2023 Educational Worksho...
Sep 8, 2022
Nominations are now open for the 2023 OCHU Member Awards
Jan 24, 2023
Nominations are now open for the 2023 OCHU Member Awards In this past year, who stepped up to a...
Read MoreCentral Award Arbitration Updates: November 2022
Nov 9, 2022
OCHU’s updates for the Arbitration Award Summary
Read MoreSurvey of hospital front-lines shows North Bay Regional Health Centre must do much more to retain staff
Nov 2, 2022
NORTH BAY, ON – In their own words North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) registered practical...
Read MoreRegister for OCHU’s 2023 Educational Workshops!
Sep 8, 2022
Registration is open for An Advanced Review of the CUPE Hospital Central Agreement Workshop!...
Read More‘Stretched to the max’ and ‘demoralized’: Nurse says hospital shortages are causing major problems in the healthcare system — CUPE 6364 President Pam Parks on CBC Radio Metro Morning
Aug 2, 2022
Click below to listen to CUPE 6364 President Pam Parks on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning show...
Read MoreRegister for the OCHU/CUPE Clerical Conference 2022!
Jul 21, 2022
Registration now open! Date: September 12, 2022 9 am – 5 pm Cost per delegate: $150.00 Zoom...
Read MoreViolence and harassment in hospitals – The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Mar 9, 2022
Read OCHU nurse Sonja Bernhard’s first-person account of violence and burnout at work, and watch TVO on Friday March 11, at 8 p.m. EST for the first segment in a series on the rising rates of violence in hospitals.
Read MoreOCHU calls on Government to Pay PSW Wage Enhancement
Jan 25, 2022
Many of our affiliated hospital local unions have reported that their PSWs are not receiving the latest extension of the PSW wage enhancement of $2. an hour.
We made several outreaches to the Ministry of Health, without response and today we have written to the Premier and the Minister of Health.
Union members must grieve vaccination policies, court rules, declining to intervene in UHN vaccination policy
Oct 29, 2021
The Superior Court of Justice for Ontario, in a decision issued today, refused to accept the request from employees of the University Health Network to strike down the hospital’s mandatory vaccination policy.
CUPE intervened in this hearing and specifically asked that the part of the policy that allows the hospital to fire employees be struck down. This was also denied.
Employees must rely on the grievance procedure and not the courts in order to resolve these matters, the court ruled.
