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.
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SickKids Rally April 9 Noon
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Stop the privatization in Durham region
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Workers at Sault Ste. Marie Group Health Centre need real wage increase, or centre risks losing even more staff
Front-line workers at the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie say they desperately need a real wage increase if the health centre doesn’t want to lose more staff. In January, the Group Health Centre announced that eight physicians would be leaving the centre at the end of May, leaving 10,000 patients in the area without a family doctor.
Health administrators deliver supermajority petition to Carefor demanding better treatment
There is a network of nurses and personal support workers doing hundreds of in-home healthcare visits to seniors across eastern Ontario every day. It appears seamless, except the infrastructure behind that network – the 70 health administrators who schedule visits, book appointments, manage sick calls and more – is cracking.
Hospital workers protest “cuts and chaos” at Lakeridge Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOSHAWA, ON – CUPE 6364 workers at Lakeridge Health rallied in Oshawa today, protesting “cuts and chaos” in response to...
“Ford’s attack on women’s wages”: new report shows real dollar wage cuts in public sector have widened gender pay gap in Ontario
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – In just six years, the average wages earned by workers in the female-dominated sectors of health care, education and...
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