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Rally at HHS
Come to Hamilton Health Sciences on Wednesday, December 13th, at lunchtime (11:30 – 1:00) and encourage the government to fully fund HHS!!!
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Durham Town Hall tomorrow: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Ottawa, ON – On Thursday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit The Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Giant Trojan Horse visits London as OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition protest privatization of hospital services
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead
Rally calls on Ford government to fund Joseph Brant, as hospital cuts staff
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBurlington, ON – Workers at Joseph Brant Hospital will be holding a rally at noon on Wednesday to protest the elimination of 10...
Giant Trojan Horse visits Niagara City Hall as OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition protest privatization of hospital services
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Chesley Community Centre on Tuesday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead
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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Federal Medicare Act Proclaimed Dec 19 1966
As healthcare workers every day we see the importance of Medicare. However, the system we have was something that took years to build. Originally healthcare was a business or a charity. Doctors owned small hospitals or religious groups established charities to care for the sick. Early in our history illnesses like Cholera, typhoid, smallpox devastated the population and forced governments to see they had a role to play in protecting and caring for citizens. Boards of heath were established, and health insurance (both private and public) became available to those with the means to pay. The system was failing Canadians.
Unions lobbied for government actions. In the 1960 Saskatchewan general election, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government of Tommy Douglas ran and was elected on a platform of implementing a universal health care plan…
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