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Personal Support Worker Day
Acknowledging the invaluable work of PSWs across our health care system.
CUPE 145 HOSPITAL WORKERS RALLY AGAINST PRIVATIZATION
June 5, 2024, 11:30am – 1:00pm
Etobicoke General Hospital
101 Humber College Blvd, Etobicoke
William Osler Health Network is contracting out nearly 300 jobs at Etobicoke General Hospital to a for-profit firm!
NURSING WEEK 2024
CHANGING LIVES. SHAPING TOMORROW.
Celebrate Nurses this Nursing week, May 6-12, 2024!
OCHU MEMBER AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
With careful deliberation and consideration, the OCHU committee members have decided on winners for the OCHU Member Awards. Click here to see the award receipients.
Happy Administrative Assistant Day!
Today we recognize clerical members in our hospitals and LTC homes! Thank You!
65,000 Ontario hospital workers awarded 6% wage increase, benefit improvements in new contract
TORONTO – 65,000 Ontario hospital workers represented by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions – CUPE (OCHU-CUPE) and SEIU Healthcare will see a 6% wage increase (3% wage increases in each of the next two years), improvements to health and dental benefits, enhancements to weekend, evening, and night premiums, and pay for periods of quarantine or isolation due to outbreaks of communicable illnesses.
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.
registered practical nurses
ambulance and paramedical
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The Struggle for Maternity Protection Law
If governments were going to be slow to act, workers unions would have to. In 1964 maternity leave for six months without loss of seniority negotiated by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at New Brunswick Health Centre. In 1968 CUPE presented to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women calling for women’s equality, childcare, maternity leave, and job protection.
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