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The funds hospitals use to pay day-to-day bills have plummeted by $2.2 billion since 2020, says new report
Rapidly increasing costs, austerity funding policies and record 1,300 job cuts push Ontario’s hospitals beyond the brink
Ford infrastructure announcement for Scarborough Health Network leaves hospital facing cuts to staff and services in its underfunded operating budget – CUPE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – Just a week after Scarborough Health Network (SHN) workers held a rally surrounding chronic understaffing...
The funds hospitals use to pay day-to-day bills have plummeted by $2.2 billion since 2020, says new report
Rapidly increasing costs, austerity funding policies and record 1,300 job cuts push Ontario’s hospitals beyond the brink
“We are breaking under the cuts”: Scarborough hospital workers call on Ford government to increase funding in the face of $36 million deficit
Scarborough Health Network workers held a rally on July 27th amidst staffing shortages and growing violence in the workplace
“We are breaking under the cuts”: Scarborough hospital workers call on Ford government to increase funding in the face of $36 million deficit
Scarborough Health Network workers to rally on July 27th amidst staffing shortages and growing violence in the workplace
Queensway Carleton to eliminate 101 jobs as Ontario hospital funding cuts continue
Cuts of nurses, personal care aides, and housekeepers as unions announce rally to demand adequate funding
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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