A new report by the CCPA says patients are being short-changed due to provincial underfunding Niagara, ON – The majority of Ontario’s 136 hospitals have carried operational deficits since 2022, and this puts an already precarious public system at risk, says new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). In Failure,…
TORONTO – On the National Day of Mourning, CUPE hospital and long-term care workers called for action from the provincial and federal governments to protect them from violence, which has worsened since the pandemic. “Canada’s high tolerance of violence against women soaks inevitably into our institutions, like hospitals and long-term care facilities”, said Sharon Richer,…
Oshawa, ON – Demoralized, exhausted and frustrated, health care workers protested outside Lakeridge hospital in Oshawa today in response to chaotic working conditions amid provincial funding restraint. Pam Parks, a registered practical nurse and president of CUPE 6364, which represents about 3,500 workers at three Lakeridge Health sites, said that the hospital has eliminated more…
Hamilton, ON – The virtual registration pilot at St. Joseph’s urgent care centre is a mistake as it will discriminatorily impact vulnerable groups of people without fixing the core issue, lengthening wait-times, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Last week, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton announced that patients will be able to self-register for…
TORONTO – The Ford government must fund hospitals at their real costs to protect patient care from deteriorating, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees. “The government is choking hospitals of funding and forcing deep staff cuts. Its self-aggrandizing advertising campaign would have covered the deficit at the Ottawa Hospital. The private jet for the…
Toronto – CUPE Ontario’s Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee (HCWCC) held a round table discussion with MPPs at Queen’s Park today. The discussions focused on the challenges facing long-term care and retirement home workers in Ontario. The Covid-19 pandemic shone a light on Ontario’s long-term care and retirement home sector in a way that nothing else was able to before. The clear pitfalls of understaffing, lack of…
Hamilton, ON – Health care workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees held a rally outside local Ontario PC MPP Neil Lumsden’s office in Hamilton in response to funding cuts by the provincial government. The government’s fall economic statement shows a plan to cut hospital funding by 10 per cent in real terms…
Over 1,000 positions already being eliminated in hospitals including North Bay, GTA, and Hamilton Stratford, ON – Health care workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees held a rally outside local Tory MPP Matthew Rae’s office on Tuesday in response to funding cuts by the Ford government. The government recently directed the hospitals…
Over one thousand positions already eliminated in multiple hospitals including North Bay, GTA, and Hamilton as hospitals buckle under budgetary pressures TORONTO – As hospitals cut hundreds of jobs and eliminate vacant positions amidst budgetary constraints imposed by the Conservative government, the largest health care union in Ontario is warning about longer wait-times, rushed care,…
Paramedics need a real solution to growing workforce crisis, not additional red tape through a college: CUPE Ambulance Committee of Ontario TORONTO – Ontario’s paramedic system is under severe strain as services struggle to recruit and retain workers while frontline paramedics face mounting mental health pressures. Yet some influential voices are once again promoting the…
