Peterborough, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies shows a co-relation between the…
Private staffing agencies drained $9.2 billion from public hospitals over 10-year period. Kitchener, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals…
Private staffing agencies drained $9.2 billion from public hospitals over 10-year period London, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals…
Private agency costs rose by 23 per cent in the Hamilton-Niagara region from 2013-14 to 2022-23 Niagara Falls, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report…
Toronto, ON – With the strike at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) now in it’s third week, Deaf, Deafblind, and hard of hearing Greater Toronto Area residents are seeing critical services impacted and denied. The 206 members of CUPE 2073 who work at CHS as Sign language interpreters, employment consultants, Deafblind intervenors, and in other frontline…
The CCPA report is the first investigation into Ontario hospital spending on private agency staff relative to employed staff TORONTO – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The…
CUPE releases astonishing data of patient volumes outpacing growth in staffing as provincial funding fails Hamilton residents Hamilton, ON – The latest data about patient care at Hamilton Health Sciences paint a bleak picture: only eight per cent of ER patients at the Juravinski site in February were admitted within the provincial target time…
CUPE Representatives to Expose Ford Government’s Home Care Failures London, ON – The crisis in Ontario’s home care system will be laid bare as CUPE representatives for Ontario Health at Home step forward to demand action. Michael Hurley, President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU), and Brett Geneau, a CUPE Representative and Team…
TORONTO – A recent survey of Ontario Health atHome (OH atHome) community and in-home care coordinators, team assistants and system planners, represented by CUPE points to a health system restructuring that is failing to solve care and access gaps while deepening health service privatization. All these factors are further demoralizing staff who are dealing with…
Union wants comprehensive staffing plan premised on fair compensation, good working conditions and a long-term recruitment strategy Toronto – The Canadian Union of Public Employees is urging the provincial government to ban the use of agency staff in Ontario’s healthcare system. This call follows the introduction of new legislation by the Ford government which the…
