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88% of Northern Ontario hospital workers not confident about Ford government’s health sector plan, 49% considering leaving: new poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESUDBURY, ON - A new poll paints a grim picture about the staffing crisis in Northern Ontario hospitals, as 90 per cent of...
We Mourn Paul Barry, First President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
Paul Barry was a paramedic at a time when many ambulances were based in hospitals. He was the president of the CUPE local which represented the...
Rallying at the Perley gates: health care staff demand better working and living conditions at residential care facility
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOTTAWA – Health care workers represented by CUPE 870 rallied outside the Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre today,...
Statement on Bill 124 ruling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOCHU-CUPE, SEIU Healthcare and Unifor statement on Bill 124 ruling: “This is a win for all hardworking families; time for Ford...
85% of Ottawa hospital workers not confident about Ford government’s health sector plan, 48% considering leaving: new poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOTTAWA – A new poll among hospital staff in the Ottawa Valley paints a dire picture of an exhausted and demoralized workforce...
88% of Northern Ontario hospital workers not confident about Ford government’s health sector plan, 49% considering leaving: new poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENORTH BAY, ON - A new poll paints a grim picture about the staffing crisis in Northern Ontario hospitals, as 90 per cent of...
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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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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