KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
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.
PSW ZOOM CALL September 24, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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December 2025 – Bargaining Updates
SICK KIDS WINS HOOPP
Sick of a second-class pension plan, Sick Kids employees have won access to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).
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 visits Queen’s Park as OCHU-CUPE and 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
Trojan Horse to visit Ontario Conservatives at Queen’s Park, as OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition demand end to privatization of hospital surgeries
On Friday morning, Doug Ford and the Ontario PC MPPs will have to confront a visitor at Queen’s Park they would rather ignore – a giant 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will be parked in front of the legislative assembly, symbolizing the “hidden threat of their plans to privatize hospital surgeries.”
No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government
New analysis shows Ontario needs 16,800 additional hospital beds by 2032 but only 3,000 have been planned by the Ontario PCs even as hallway healthcare reaches record high
“An appalling failure to plan:” new research to reveal shortfall in planned hospital capacity in Ontario and the number of additional beds and staff required in Perth and Smith Falls
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPERTH, ON – For the past two years, health minister Sylvia Jones has repeatedly stated the government’s plan to add 3,000...
No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government
New analysis shows Ontario needs 16,800 additional hospital beds by 2032
No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government
New analysis shows province faces a 13,800 shortfall of hospital beds by 2032
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