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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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Giant Trojan Horse visits Queen’s Park 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
Trojan Horse to visit Ontario Conservatives at Queen’s Park, as OCHU-CUPE and the Ontario Health Coalition demand end to privatization of hospital surgeries
On Friday morning, Doug Ford and the Ontario PC MPPs will have to confront a visitor at Queen’s Park they would rather ignore – a giant 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will be parked in front of the legislative assembly, symbolizing the “hidden threat of their plans to privatize hospital surgeries.”
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No respite for Ontario patients: new report says five times more hospital beds needed than planned by Ford government
New analysis shows Ontario needs 16,800 additional hospital beds by 2032 but only 3,000 have been planned by the Ontario PCs even as hallway healthcare reaches record high
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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