KEY OCHU/CUPE CAMPAIGNS
OCHU/CUPE carries out advocacy on behalf of our members, hospital patients and long-term care residents across Ontario.
Not Adding Up: Surgical and Diagnostic Privatization in Ontario
More public money is going to for-profit care. Are patients getting faster access?
Capacity and privatization in Ontario Hospitals
The Escalating Assault on Ontario’s Hospitals, shows that this crisis is not unavoidable
LATEST NEWSLETTER
September 2026 – Rally at Queensway-Carleton
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
Hospital workers demonstrate at Stratford MPP’s office against government’s expansion of private, for-profit hospital services
While the Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans, OCHU/CUPE says underused hospital operating rooms should be better utilized
Hospital workers to stage anti-privatization demonstration at Stratford MPP’s constituency office on Monday in response to government expansion of private, for-profit health care services
Ford government plans to double private delivery of MRIs and CT scans
“Profit-taking will undermine patient safety and lead to higher death rates:” CUPE reacts to Etobicoke General Hospital’s decision to privatize housekeeping and ancillary services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – Etobicoke General Hospital is moving ahead with privatization of housekeeping, waste management, laundry, and...
“We have no choice but to work ourselves to death”: SickKids staff will rally for a decent pension plan on Tuesday
Union blasts hospital for taking 24-year pension holiday
“We have no choice but to work ourselves to death”: SickKids staff will rally for a decent pension plan on Tuesday
Union blasts hospital for taking 24-year pension holiday!
2024 HOOPP Benefit Improvement
Great News! Your pension is increasing!
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OCHU NEWSLETTERS
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