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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...
Giant Trojan Horse visits Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga as OCHU-CUPE and 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
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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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The Struggle for Maternity Protection Law
If governments were going to be slow to act, workers unions would have to. In 1964 maternity leave for six months without loss of seniority negotiated by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at New Brunswick Health Centre. In 1968 CUPE presented to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women calling for women’s equality, childcare, maternity leave, and job protection.
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