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
“We have no choice but to work ourselves to death”: SickKids staff will rally for a decent pension plan on Tuesday
Union blasts hospital for taking 24-year pension holiday
“We have no choice but to work ourselves to death”: SickKids staff will rally for a decent pension plan on Tuesday
Union blasts hospital for taking 24-year pension holiday!
2024 HOOPP Benefit Improvement
Great News! Your pension is increasing!
Local Issues Interest Arbitration Award
In the Matter of an Interest Arbitration BETWEEN: PARTICIPATING HOSPITALS (The “Hospitals”) AND ONTARIO COUNCIL OF HOSPITALS UNION/CANADIAN UNION OF...
OCHU/CUPE announces rallies to protest Ford government’s expansion of private, for-profit clinics
The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) blasted the government’s plan to further privatize the delivery of MRIs and CT scans through for-profit clinics, and announced a series of rallies at Ontario PC MPP offices by union members and community allies across the province for this summer.
In Memory of Robert Waddell
We regret to tell you that Robert Waddell, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions has died. Robert was president from 1987-1990 and under his leadership CUPE hospital workers received wage increases of 8 per cent and 7 per cent in a two year agreement.
Robert was a long time employee of Health Sciences North in Sudbury. He was a constituency assistant to Sudbury’s MPP for many years. He will be greatly missed by his family and by a grateful OCHU membership.
OCHU/CUPE is dedicated to sharing the stories of our members and our predecessors with monthly newsletters and labour history articles.
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