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“We are fighting for respect and fairness:” clerical staff at Mount Sinai to rally on Tuesday morning
Staff are demanding the hospital negotiate a contract that offers fair wages and better working conditions
“We can’t afford more hospital cuts in Hamilton:” CUPE 7800 rings the alarm as large fiscal deficit at Hamilton Health Sciences prompts staffing review
Union to hold media conference in Hamilton on Monday morning
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Cornwall Community Hospital on Monday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Cornwall, ON – On Monday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Cornwall Community Hospital, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Cornwall Community Hospital on Monday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Cornwall, ON – On Monday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Cornwall Community Hospital, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
CUPE 5492 Hospital Workers’ Rally
Fight for a Fair Contract! November 5, 2024, 11:30am, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto. 600 University Avenue.
Giant Trojan Horse visits PC MPP Victor Fedeli’s constituency office 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
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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