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CUPE 5492 Hospital Workers’ Rally
Fight for a Fair Contract! November 5, 2024, 11:30am, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto. 600 University Avenue.
Giant Trojan Horse visits PC MPP Victor Fedeli’s constituency office 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 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.”
“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.
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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