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Health care workers protest outside MPP Neil Lumsden’s office as funding cuts take toll on staff, patients
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEHamilton, ON – Health care workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees held a rally outside local Ontario PC...
Ottawa projected to lose funding for 725 frontline health care staff and nearly 200 hospital beds by 2027-28: new report
Planned funding cuts by the provincial government will lengthen wait-times and worsen patient care in hospitals, warns CUPE
Health care workers to protest government funding cuts at MPP David Piccini’s office as billion dollar budget shortfall looms over Ontario hospitals
Rally to be held at 10 a.m. on February 17
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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
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
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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