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
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,...
Statement on Bill 124 ruling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOCHU-CUPE, SEIU Healthcare and Unifor statement on Bill 124 ruling: “This is a win for all hardworking families; time for Ford...
85% of Ottawa hospital workers not confident about Ford government’s health sector plan, 48% considering leaving: new poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOTTAWA – A new poll among hospital staff in the Ottawa Valley paints a dire picture of an exhausted and demoralized workforce...
88% of Northern Ontario hospital workers not confident about Ford government’s health sector plan, 49% considering leaving: new poll
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENORTH BAY, ON - A new poll paints a grim picture about the staffing crisis in Northern Ontario hospitals, as 90 per cent of...
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