SEIU Healthcare, OCHU-CUPE, and Unifor sign 10-point Solidarity Pact to save public hospitals and fight privatization

Health Care

Face à l’augmentation alarmante du nombre de postes vacants, aux fermetures sans précédent de salles d’urgence et aux milliers de patients qui meurent dans l’attente d’une intervention chirurgicale, trois grands syndicats représentant environ 70,000 travailleurs du secteur hospitalier de l’Ontario ont signé aujourd’hui à Queen’s Park un Pacte de solidarité pour sauver nos hôpitaux publics…

CUPE Local 3314 public health workers reach tentative agreement with Hastings Prince Edward Public Health

Health Care

BELLEVILLE, ON—After 10 days on strike, frontline public health workers at Hastings Prince Edward Public Health have reached a tentative agreement with the board of health. The workers’ bargaining committee resumed negotiations with management on Monday afternoon following news that their nurse coworkers, members of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) Local 31, ratified a collective agreement…

“We need to recruit and retain workers now”: CUPE Local 4911 calls on Peterborough Paramedic Service to come back with a better offer in bargaining

Health Care, Paramedics

(Peterborough, ON) – What the Peterborough County/City Paramedics is proposing to paramedics in negotiations isn’t good enough and that’s why negotiations have broken down, says the union representing them, CUPE Local 4911. “Staffing at the Peterborough County/City Paramedics has become a real problem,” says Natalie Waters, President of the CUPE Local 4911. “There are many…

“Ignoring the obvious”: CUPE Ontario and HCWCC joint statement on the Ontario Ombudsman’s LTC report and for-profit care homes

Health Care

CUPE Ontario and the Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee (HCWCC) have examined the Ontario Ombudsman’s report, Lessons for the Long Term. The report describes, in devastating detail, the failure of the Ford Conservatives to provide adequate oversight of long-term care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the report shows, the province’s inspection system was already under…

“From heroes to nothing”: Regency Park Long-Term Care issues layoff notices to seven workers

Health Care, Solidarity

WINDSOR, ON – UniversalCare has sent layoff notices to seven staff at the Regency Park Long-Term Care Home, one of Windsor’s only long-term care homes in the downtown core. As long-term care (LTC) homes across Ontario struggle with staffing shortages, UniversalCare has cited ‘budget issues’ as their reasoning for laying off staff. The LTC workers…

“Don’t risk lives by outsourcing our work”: CUPE Local 1842 paramedics call on Hastings County Council to keep lift assistance work in their hands

Health Care, Paramedics

BELLEVILLE, ON – A proposal to transfer lift assistance work out of the hands of paramedics was discussed at Hastings County Council and needs to be opposed, said CUPE Local 1842. “Paramedics are the ones who know how to determine if someone’s hurt and can properly attend to them if they are,” said Rob Cunningham,…

Stratford requires 42 additional hospital beds and 246 more staff to improve patient care over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis

Health Care

CUPE warns of a deeper crisis if the Ford government sticks to its insufficient plan and does not invest in improving hospital capacity and staffing levels. Stratford, ON – The crisis in the province’s hospital sector will only worsen over the next four years, unless Ontario makes significant investments to improve staffing levels and capacity,…

Ontario requires 8,170 additional hospital beds and 60,000 more staff to meet patient needs over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis

Health Care

CUPE warns of a deeper crisis if the Ford government sticks to its insufficient plan and does not invest in improving hospital capacity and staffing levels. Toronto, ON – The crisis in the province’s hospital sector will only worsen over the next four years, unless Ontario makes significant investments to improve staffing levels and capacity,…