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Giant Trojan Horse to visit Hopital Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst tomorrow: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Hearst, ON – On Wednesday afternoon, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Hopital Notre-Dame Hospital in Hearst symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Giant Trojan Horse visits Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre 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
“This is why we are retiring in poverty:” Health care workers slam SickKids for choosing not to pay into pension plan for 26th year
Toronto, ON – Health-care workers at SickKids Hospital in Toronto are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff.
Bill C-321 Town Hall Postponed
We had scheduled a call on Tuesday, October 15 to talk about an amendment to the Canadian Criminal Code which makes it a more serious offence if a person assaults a health care worker at work. This amendment passed through the House of Commons unanimously and is now in before a committee of the Senate.
We have decided to do an in-person lobby of the senators on that committee, which will happen in early November, and so we will cancel the Zoom on October 15 and reschedule that call after that has taken place.
PSW Town Hall
DISCUSSING HOW REGULATIONS UNDER THE HSCPOA RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT DUE PROCESS
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Hamilton General Hospital on Tuesday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Hamilton, ON – On Tuesday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Hamilton General Hospital, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Founded in 1982, the 40,000 member Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE is the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario.
We represent hospital service workers, registered practical nurses, housekeeping, trades, clerical staff, and ambulance and paramedical personnel.
OCHU/CUPE bargains a provincial collective agreement for these CUPE Ontario members with the Ontario Hospital Association and lays that pattern down across the hospital sector and long-term care facilities that have a relationship with a hospital.
We also carry out advocacy on behalf of our members and on behalf of hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
OCHU/CUPE is an active partner with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition and works closely with the Ontario Healthcare Coalition whenever community health services are threatened with cuts or privatization.
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Oct 20 1904 – the founder of Canada’s Medicare system is born
Thomas Clement Douglas was born October 20th 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. But most of his life Canadian’s knew him as “Tommy”. He was an immigrant boy that almost lost his leg to illness but for the charity of a doctor who operated for free to save the limb. That act marked him, and he became committed to making sure Canadian had a medical system that did not rely of the luck of charity.
At 19 Douglas enrolled at Brandon College to study theology. It was there he was introduced to the social gospel, that and time spent in Chicago during the depression, convinced Douglas for the need for social change to address economic inequalities. Douglas became a Baptist minister in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. It was there that he joined the new Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 in the middle of the great depression.
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