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“I loved going to work when I first started. Now I dread it:” new study warns that Ontario’s hospital staffing crisis will worsen as morale plummets
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENORTH BAY, ON – A new peer-reviewed study released today in North Bay warns that Ontario’s hospital workers, most of whom are...
Running on Empty: Ontario Hospital Workers’ Mental Health and Well-Being Deteriorating Under Austerity-Driven System
This report will cover issues concerning health care workers, mental health, neoliberalism, conditions of work.
“I loved going to work when I first started. Now I dread it:” new study on Ontario’s hospital workers’ deteriorating morale to be released on Wednesday in Kingston
A new peer-reviewed study warns that Ontario’s predominantly female hospital workers are in deep turmoil as they labour through an intensifying staffing crisis that is harming their well-being and compromising patient care. The full results of the study will be announced at a media conference in Kingston on Wednesday afternoon.
“I loved going to work when I first started. Now I dread it:” new study on Ontario’s hospital workers’ deteriorating morale to be released on Monday at Queen’s Park
A new peer-reviewed study warns that Ontario’s predominantly female hospital workers are in deep turmoil as they labour through an intensifying staffing crisis that is harming their well-being and compromising patient care. The full results of the study will be announced at a media conference at Queen’s Park on Monday at 10 a.m.
Prince of Wales, Barrhaven and Windsor Park Retirement Home workers need your help!
Workers at Prince of Wales, Barrhaven and Windsor Park retirement homes in Ottawa, Ontario have worked tirelessly through the pandemic and continue to provide the best possible care for residents, despite being overworked and incredibly underpaid. These three Venvi retirement homes are some of the lowest paying homes in the Ottawa area.
Hospital workers demonstrate at Peterborough MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPETERBOROUGH, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario...
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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Union Leaders Jailed in the 1980s
Unionized public employees continually strugglefor rights other workers take for granted. In the 1980s the presidents of three public sector unions were sent to jail by governments because their members went on strike. CUPE President, Grace Hartman, and Ontario Division President, Lucy Nicholson, were sentenced to 45 days for the 1981 wildcat strike by Ontario hospital workers. Sean Flynn, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, was sentenced to 35 days for supporting his members
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