Local 894 to delay strike pending ratification on Monday SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – On Thursday CUPE Local 894 workers reached a tentative agreement with the Group Health Centre. “We are pleased that we have been able to reach an agreement that we can present to our members,” president of CUPE Local 894 Tracy…
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 BROCKVILLE, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Steve Clark’s constituency office in Brockville this morning. In June, the government…
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 HAMILTON, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Neil Lumsden’s constituency office in Hamilton this morning. In June, the government…
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 OTTAWA – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Lisa Macleod’s constituency office in Ottawa this morning. In June, the government announced…
Members of Local 894 who work at the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie voted in favour of a strike and are scheduled to hit the picket lines on July 26 SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Health care workers at the Group Health Centre are overworked, facing burnout, and struggling to make ends meet…
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 KENORA, ON – Hospital workers protested the Ford government’s rapid expansion of healthcare privatization outside Ontario PC MPP Greg Rickford’s constituency office in Kenora this morning. In June, the government…
TORONTO, ON – On Wednesday morning leaders from the Ontario Nurses Association, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the Canadian Union of Public Employees called on the Ontario government to prioritize home and community care workers and the services they provide across the province. ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN, OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick…
OTTAWA – There is a network of nurses and personal support workers doing hundreds of in-home healthcare visits to seniors across eastern Ontario every day. It appears seamless, except the infrastructure behind that network – the 70 health administrators who schedule visits, book appointments, manage sick calls and more – is cracking. Those health administrators,…
OSHAWA, ON – CUPE 6364 workers at Lakeridge Health rallied in Oshawa today, protesting “cuts and chaos” in response to provincial underfunding of hospitals. According to the union, hospital management has been eliminating full-time housekeeping and clerical positions, and overloading other workers with additional responsibilities. “This is shameful behavior by hospital management, to cut staff…
84 per cent of CUPE 870 workers say they are not staffed well enough to provide good quality care OTTAWA – Health care workers represented by CUPE 870 rallied outside the Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre today, demanding their employer improve compensation and working conditions to enable better care for residents. The union represents…
