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Giant Trojan Horse to visit Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Friday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
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
Planned staffing review at Hamilton Health Sciences will lead to cuts, warns CUPE, as hospital deficit mounts due to government underfunding
The Ford government has committed to covering only a fraction of hospital’s operating costs
“We are fighting for respect and fairness:” clerical staff at Mount Sinai to rally on Tuesday morning
Staff are demanding the hospital negotiate a contract that offers fair wages and better working conditions
“We can’t afford more hospital cuts in Hamilton:” CUPE 7800 rings the alarm as large fiscal deficit at Hamilton Health Sciences prompts staffing review
Union to hold media conference in Hamilton on Monday morning
Giant Trojan Horse to visit Cornwall Community Hospital on Monday: OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition call for ending privatization of hospital surgeries
Cornwall, ON – On Monday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit Cornwall Community Hospital, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
CUPE 5492 Hospital Workers’ Rally
Fight for a Fair Contract! November 5, 2024, 11:30am, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto. 600 University Avenue.
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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Union Leaders Jailed in the 1980s
Unionized public employees continually strugglefor rights other workers take for granted. In the 1980s the presidents of three public sector unions were sent to jail by governments because their members went on strike. CUPE President, Grace Hartman, and Ontario Division President, Lucy Nicholson, were sentenced to 45 days for the 1981 wildcat strike by Ontario hospital workers. Sean Flynn, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, was sentenced to 35 days for supporting his members
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