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.
LATEST NEWSLETTER
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.
Latest News
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...
Women’s Wages and the attack on Broader Public Sector Workers
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88% of Northern Ontario hospital workers not confident about Ford government’s health sector plan, 49% considering leaving: new poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESUDBURY, ON - A new poll paints a grim picture about the staffing crisis in Northern Ontario hospitals, as 90 per cent of...
We Mourn Paul Barry, First President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
Paul Barry was a paramedic at a time when many ambulances were based in hospitals. He was the president of the CUPE local which represented the...
Rallying at the Perley gates: health care staff demand better working and living conditions at residential care facility
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOTTAWA – Health care workers represented by CUPE 870 rallied outside the Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre today,...
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