by OCHU | Nov 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “We can’t afford more hospital cuts in Hamilton:” CUPE 7800 rings the alarm as large fiscal deficit at Hamilton Health Sciences prompts staffing review Hamilton, ON – The union representing about 4,750 staff at Hamilton Health Sciences is...
by OCHU | Oct 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Giant Trojan Horse to visit Clinton Public Hospital tomorrow: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries Clinton, ON – On Thursday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Clinton...
by OCHU | Oct 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Please protest the de-funding of Ontario’s supervised consumption sites by completing this e-action The evidence is resounding: supervised consumption sites save lives and support our healthcare system. Supervised consumption sites (SCS) bring drug use indoors and...
by OCHU | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “An appalling failure to plan:” new research to reveal shortfall in hospital capacity in Ontario and the number of additional beds and staff required in Kingston KINGSTON, ON – For the past two years, health minister Sylvia Jones has repeatedly...
by OCHU | Sep 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
NO RESPITE: ONTARIO’S FAILURE TO PLAN FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS Ontario is experiencing unprecedented hospital capacityproblems since the election of the Ford government. Thousandsof unplanned closures of hospital emergency departments,permanent closures of...
by OCHU | May 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
In Memory of Robert Waddell We regret to tell you that Robert Waddell, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions has died. Robert was president from 1987-1990 and under his leadership CUPE hospital workers received wage increases of 8 per cent and 7 per cent...
