Ottawa hospitals need to hire 3000 more staff each year to deal with record turnover and resignations, increased patient needs and rising paramedic offload delays

Health Care, Solidarity

OTTAWA, ON – Unless Ottawa hospitals hire more than 3000 staff, yearly spiking emergency room wait times at hospitals like The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, unprecedented staffing shortages fueled by resignations, job vacancies, increasing needs, and higher paramedic call volumes will deepen as the population grows and ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees…

“From our communities to the courts, repeal Bill 124”: CUPE Ontario reacts to Superior Court hearing the legal challenge

Bill 124, Governmental

(TORONTO, ON) It’s a milestone in the fight to repeal Bill 124, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario during a press conference about the start of court hearings regarding the legislation. “We are here today to take the next step in our legal challenge against Bill 124,” said Fred Hahn, President of…

“Rife with discrimination against the elderly,” Bill 7 prompts advocates to escalate call for Human Rights Commission investigation into systemic ageism in Ontario health policy

Health Care

TORONTO, ON – At a press conference held today, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC), the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE), and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced they are escalating their call for the Ontario Human Rights Commission to launch a formal inquiry into systemic discrimination in the provision of health care…

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CUPE calls for reversal of Ford’s plan to move disabled and elderly people from hospitals to LTC homes

CUPE Ontario in the Media

CUPE is calling for the Ford government to reverse a controversial decision to start moving elderly people and those with disabilities from hospitals to long-term care homes. In a release, CUPE says that emergency rooms and intensive care units are shutting down province wide because of inadequate staffing, not because of “the inability to coerce…

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CUPE calls for province to reverse plan to “force” elderly into long-term care homes

CUPE Ontario in the Media

Canada’s largest labour union is accusing the Ontario government of “scapegoating” elderly people with a plan to force them into long-term care homes as a way of fixing the province’s health-care crisis. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 90,000 health-care workers in Ontario, called on the province Friday to scrap its proposed Bill…