KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
LATEST NEWSLETTER
February 2025 – Bargaining Updates
Driven to the Brink
A new report warns that the turn to health care cutbacks in Ontario harken to the period of Mike Harris, as hundreds of job cuts ravage hospitals across the province.
PSW CAMPAIGN
Join the fight for PSWs to be treated with dignity and respect. New Regulatory Proposal Denies PSWs Basic Rights to Due Process and Representation.
NURSE-TO-PATIENT RATIOS STUDY
Major study calls on Ford to legislate nurse to patient ratios.
OCHU/CUPE BARGAINING
Stay up to date on recent bargaining awards, arbitrations, and bulletins.
Hollowed out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies
A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies.
Latest News
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
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Health Sciences North – Sudbury on Tuesday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Sudbury, ON – On Tuesday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Health Sciences North in Sudbury, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Giant Trojan Horse visits Espanola Regional Hospital 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 Blind River Hospital on Friday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Blind River, ON – On Friday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Blind River Hospital symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
OCHU/CUPE is dedicated to sharing the stories of our members and our predecessors with monthly newsletters and labour history articles.
OCHU NEWSLETTERS
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