TORONTO, ON – Delegates to the 2018 convention of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) have unanimously accepted their recently (April 22) negotiated provincial contract settlement for ratification and re-elected the three, full-time OCHU officers and the negotiating team that bargained it. OCHU president and Ottawa native Michael Hurley, first elected in 1990, was…
TORONTO, ON – Intense weekend bargaining for 75,000 Ontario hospital workers whose three unions formed a unique alliance in provincial negotiations has resulted in a tentative contract with hospital employers. The settlement comes after weeks of mobilizing, rallying and doing visible workplace actions under the banner of ‘Together For Respect’, at more than 100 hospitals…
KINGSTON, ON – Hospital workers from Kingston and other southeastern Ontario communities will be demonstrating along with their counterparts at hospitals across the province this Wednesday (April 18) at noon. The rallies are the second in a series of escalating actions that 75,000 hospital workers, who are without a contract, are taking part in this…
TORONTO, ON –This Wednesday (April 11), hospital staff from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), including Toronto, Newmarket, Oshawa, Brampton and Mississauga, will join in an unprecedented Ontario-wide workplace action for respect. Along with thousands of other hospital nurses, personal support workers, porters, dietary and administrative and trades staff across Ontario, they will wear a seemingly…
TORONTO, ON – Three of Canada’s largest unions today announced an alliance that kicks off an escalating campaign of membership mobilization to push Ontario hospitals to return to bargaining and treat their staff with respect. This is the first time the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (OCHU/CUPE), SEIU…
TORONTO, ON – Leaders from three of Ontario’s largest unions are meeting Monday and Tuesday (March 26 and March 27, 2018) in Toronto to work together to move stalled provincial negotiations with Ontario’s hospitals. Collectively, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), SEIU Healthcare and Unifor are trying to negotiate a provincial contract on behalf…
TORONTO, ON – Chaplains and spiritual Care Practitioners from St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Providence Health Centre and St. Michael’s Hospitals have joined the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in a certification vote held Monday afternoon. The thirty-two person unit consists of hospital chaplains and spiritual care practitioners from different religious denominations across the…
KINGSTON, ON – Recent violent attacks on Kingston hospital staff have resulted in serious injury including concussion, cuts, bruises and a broken tooth. Front-line staff at the hospital are taking their demand for an end to violence against them to the lawn of the hospital with a noon-hour rally on Stuart Street at 12:00 noon…
Sudbury, ON – If they had to call for medical assistance for themselves or a family member, nearly 88 per cent of Sudburians who responded to a poll about provincial changes to 911 delivery, said they prefer a response by an ambulance service. Only 8 per cent said they preferred a response by a fire…
TORONTO, ON – An Ontario arbitrator has ruled that Sue McIntyre, a North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) nurse fired by the hospital after she spoke about workplace violence at a nursing conference and was quoted in a union media release, should get her job back. Further, in his decision, arbitrator Bram Herlich says that…
