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New report warns of more job cuts, longer wait-times and declining quality of care in Niagara as funding cuts squeeze Ontario hospitals
CUPE media conference on February 11 to reveal shortfall in staffing, capacity over next three years in the Niagara Region due to government funding restraint
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Health care workers protest government funding cuts at Ontario PC MPP Matthew Rae’s office as billion dollar revenue shortfall looms over Ontario hospitals
Over 1,000 positions already being eliminated in hospitals including North Bay, GTA, and Hamilton
New report warns of longer wait-times, rushed care, and overcrowded Ontario hospitals as government cuts expected to cause over 10,000 job losses and shortfall of 4,080 beds
Peterborough projected to lose nearly 115 staff and 30 beds by 2027-28
CP24 Video – OCHU Calls on Government to Increase Healthcare Funding
Cupe and the ontario council of hospital unions are calling on the province to increase health care funding. The union says hospitals have been told to plan for 2% funding increases until 2027 – 28; far less than the 6% average in recent years. They say it will result in more than 10,000 job losses and the reduction of 2400 hospital beds.
New report warns of longer wait-times, rushed care, and overcrowded Ontario hospitals as government cuts expected to cause over 10,000 job losses and shortfall of 4,080 beds
Hamilton projected to lose nearly 160 staffed beds as job cuts begin at St. Joseph’s and Hamilton Health Sciences
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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