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Giant Trojan Horse visits Stratford General 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 visits St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Guelph 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 Clinton Public Hospital tomorrow: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEClinton, ON – On Thursday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Clinton Public Hospital, symbolizing the “duplicity...
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Wingham & District Hospital tomorrow: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWingham, ON – On Thursday afternoon, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Wingham & District Hospital, symbolizing the...
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Stratford General Hospital tomorrow: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEStratford, ON – On Wednesday afternoon, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Stratford General Hospital, symbolizing the...
“Harmful for residents and staff:” CUPE to hold media conference opposing Ford government’s plan to downgrade staffing regulations in long-term care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – The Ford government’s proposed regulatory changes to downgrade staffing in long-term care legislation is fraught with...
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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Oct 20 1904 – the founder of Canada’s Medicare system is born
Thomas Clement Douglas was born October 20th 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. But most of his life Canadian’s knew him as “Tommy”. He was an immigrant boy that almost lost his leg to illness but for the charity of a doctor who operated for free to save the limb. That act marked him, and he became committed to making sure Canadian had a medical system that did not rely of the luck of charity.
At 19 Douglas enrolled at Brandon College to study theology. It was there he was introduced to the social gospel, that and time spent in Chicago during the depression, convinced Douglas for the need for social change to address economic inequalities. Douglas became a Baptist minister in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. It was there that he joined the new Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1935 in the middle of the great depression.
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