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Walkerton residents will rally for real solutions after a 500-person family doctor queue disappoints
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWalkerton, ON – On the eve of the provincial election, a line-up of hospital stretchers outside South Bruce Grey Health Centre...
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Click to see the youtube video CUPE 7800 created talking about the crisis of hallway healthcare and the need for public healthcare funding!
Statement Outside St. Michael’s Hospital
February 24th at 10:00 a.m., CUPE will make a statement at St. Michael’s Hospital in response to the planned elimination of hundreds positions as provincial underfunding forces cuts
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre stretched to the limit: Line-up of gurneys symbolize health care crisis facing Ontario communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBarrie, ON – On the eve of the provincial election, a line-up of hospital stretchers outside Barrie’s Royal Victoria Regional...
Community Takes Protest to Save Its Hospitals to the TransCanada Highway: Thessalon Wages a Valiant Struggle to Save Its Hospital
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THESSALON, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Community members are waging a valiant struggle to save their hospital and restore its...
Hamilton General Hospital stretched to the limit: Line-up of gurneys symbolize health care crisis facing Ontario communities
OCHU-CUPE will hold a media conference outside Hamilton General Hospital on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
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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April 23, 1956 – Founding of the Canadian Labour Congress
As workers come together to form unions those unions too come together in solidarity. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is a union of unions. It is also referred to as the “House of Labour” because unions all join under one roof. The uniting of unions goes a long way back to the 1860s and 70s…
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