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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.
PSW Rally May 19, 10:30 AM at Doug Ford’s Office
Please help protest regulation of personal support workers that denies them the basic rights accorded every other profession in Ontario
Rally Against the Health Care Cuts
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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
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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April 23, 1956 – Founding of the Canadian Labour Congress
As workers come together to form unions those unions too come together in solidarity. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is a union of unions. It is also referred to as the “House of Labour” because unions all join under one roof. The uniting of unions goes a long way back to the 1860s and 70s…
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