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
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
NO RESPITE: ONTARIO’S FAILURE TO PLAN FOR HOSPITAL PATIENTS
Ontario is experiencing unprecedented hospital capacityproblems since the election of the Ford government. Thousandsof unplanned closures of...
“An appalling failure to plan:” new research report to reveal huge shortfall between the hospital capacity required by 2032 and the Ford government’s ten-year plan
Media conference at Queen’s Park at 10 a.m. on September 4 to reveal full findings
CMAJ study showing lower income people have less access to for-profit cataract surgeries must force a reconsideration of policy, says hospital union
In response to new research showing that wealthy Ontarians are disproportionately benefiting from for-profit clinics, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is demanding the province halt public funding for private surgeries and invest in cataracts provided by public hospitals.
Intro to the Central Hospital Agreement
Are you attending the September 4-5 educational? Contact admin@ochu.on.ca to register.
“Premier’s callous response to hospital crisis stark contrast to the suffering of patients and staff:” says OCHU/CUPE at launch of new peer-reviewed study heralding warning for Ontario
The Premier’s recent comments in the media shows “a callous attitude” towards the hospital crisis, where overcrowding has increased by 30 percent since 2018, said Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), referring to Doug Ford’s gaffe about overflow patients having the option of receiving treatment at a new veterinary hospital.
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