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
Rally for Fair Wages And Respect
CUPE 5492 – Rally for Fair Wages and Respect! 12 pm on Dec 19 – Mount Sinai Hospital
Sick of second-class status: SickKids employees to rally for same pension plan as other Ontario hospital staff on Tuesday
SickKids is set to become the only hospital in Ontario that
doesn’t offer HOOPP
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...
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