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
“Harmful for residents and staff:” CUPE to hold media conference opposing Ford government’s plan to downgrade staffing regulations in long-term care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – The Ford government’s proposed regulatory changes to downgrade staffing in long-term care legislation is fraught with...
Giant Trojan Horse visits Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga 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
Please protest the de-funding of Ontario’s supervised consumption sites by completing this e-action
The evidence is resounding: supervised consumption sites save lives and support our healthcare system.
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
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