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Rallies for Publicly Funded Education
Join rallies across Ontario to defend publicly funded education on Saturday, October 24, at 1 p.m. Events will take place in London, Ottawa, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, bringing communities together to support and protect public education.
On-to-Ottawa Trek Protest
Stop new user charges for cancer, diagnostic & surgical patients for health care the attempt to destroy Canadian Public Health Care
Workplace Violence in Health Care: OCHU-CUPE Member Survey
OCHU-CUPE, in partnership with the University of Guelph, invites members aged 18 and older to participate in a research study on workplace violence in health care
Stop the cuts at Hamilton Health Sciences
Please come and help us defend our patients from the Ford government’s hospital cuts!
How the Ford government’s private clinics are taking away from local public hospitals
Research reportOntario Hospital PrivatizationPublic hospital capacity remains underused while Ontario directs public funding toward private clinics...
Personal Support Workers Rally on September 22
We’re rallying to call on the Ford government to change the legislation governing the HSCPOA and ensure PSWs have the right to representation and fair due process in disciplinary matters.
CUPE 1909 Rally
Join us demanding appropriate funding from the Ford government to ensure Safe Staffing at Ross Memorial Hospital!
Rally to stop the cuts at Bruyere Health
CUPE will present worker-community petition to hospital management at rally on September 10
PSW Zoom Call
PSW Zoom Call on Sept 10th, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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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“We will fight to restore the quality of care at our hospital:” CUPE 7800 to hold rally at Hamilton General at 12 p.m. Tuesday
Hundreds expected to come in support of CUPE 7800’s campaign in Hamilton
Morale declines at Ross Memorial Hospital as funding cuts take toll on staff and patient care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASELindsay, ON – Recent staffing changes at Ross Memorial Hospital have created unsafe conditions for workers and patients, say...
Ontario patient wait times increase as government funding favours for-profit providers while Lakeridge Health infrastructure is under-utilized
Using public hospital infrastructure would be a more efficient use of tax dollars instead of spending on private clinics: CCPA & CUPE
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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