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Giant Trojan Horse to visit Health Sciences North – Sudbury on Tuesday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Sudbury, ON – On Tuesday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Health Sciences North in Sudbury, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Giant Trojan Horse visits Espanola Regional Hospital 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
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Blind River Hospital on Friday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Blind River, ON – On Friday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Blind River Hospital symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Chapleau Health Services on Thursday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Chapleau, ON – On Thursday afternoon, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Chapleau Health Services symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
“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.
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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The Struggle for Maternity Protection Law
If governments were going to be slow to act, workers unions would have to. In 1964 maternity leave for six months without loss of seniority negotiated by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at New Brunswick Health Centre. In 1968 CUPE presented to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women calling for women’s equality, childcare, maternity leave, and job protection.
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