KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
Capacity and privatization in Ontario Hospitals
The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals, shows that this crisis is not unavoidable
LATEST NEWSLETTER
May 2026 – 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.
Latest News
Birchmount Hospital Rally
A $36 million funding shortfall is putting patient care at risk, leading to longer waits, hallway medicine, and delayed surgeries. Stand with health care workers and demand proper hospital funding.
Big PSW rally planned for Doug Ford’s office July 8 to demand regulatory reforms in face of threat to workers’ livelihoods
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEEtobicoke, ON – Personal support worker and president of CUPE 132 Tera Engley is deeply apprehensive about Ontario’s new PSW...
Health care workers to protest outside MPP Greg Rickford’s office tomorrow to demand more hospital funding
ER wait-times at Lake of the Woods District Hospital increased 62 per cent over five years amid funding and staffing shortfall
Fiscal Advisory Committee
Senior Research Officer Doug Allan will lead a series of regional workshops to help local leaders better understand hospital budgets and to participate fully in budget meetings.
Five-year trend shows ER wait-times continue to increase at Simcoe County hospitals amid funding shortfall: CCPA report
Provincial underfunding is undermining timely access to hospital services, says author of new report
New data shows hospital admission wait-times increased 62 per cent at Lake of the Woods District Hospital over five years
A new report by the CCPA says provincial underfunding is undermining timely access to hospital services
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OCHU NEWSLETTERS
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