HAMILTON, ON – For the fourth consecutive year, 2200 front-line hospital staff at St. Joseph’s Healthcare represented by CUPE 786 are giving back to the community. Seven local organizations that provide supports for families and individuals in need were recently presented with donations totalling $14,000 from CUPE 786. “We know that some local charities and…
TORONTO – In a historic moment, Ontario’s five largest health care unions have joined forces, issuing an SOS appeal to Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones: your plan is failing – take action and adopt our solutions to stabilize Ontario’s crashing health care system today. The PC “plan” is failing miserably. The unions…
WINDSOR, ON – A provincial wage enhancement for personal support workers (PSWs) that was supposed to have been made permanent disappeared from paycheques without warning to workers at Regency Park Nursing Home, a private, for-profit long-term care facility in Windsor, Ontario. “We were shocked, to say the least. We thought it must have been an…
NORTH BAY, ON – In their own words North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) registered practical nurses, cleaners, care aides and other staff flag a culture of management bullying and just plain indifference to their daily struggles at work, in a recent survey conducted by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions-CUPE. The comment segment of…
KINGSTON, ON – Kingston Health Sciences Centre must immediately add 180 full-time staff to deal with higher patient volumes from this fall and winter’s COVID-19 wave and pressing flu season or patient care will continue to decline and ambulance offload delays will increase, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and OPSEU/SEFPO paramedics said at…
WINDSOR, ON – The provincial government needs to take decisive action and fund the solutions that will alleviate the ongoing crisis of ambulance shortages in Essex County, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2974. “As paramedics, we have been struggling to serve our communities in Essex County, due to chronic understaffing and persistent…
SUDBURY, ON – Today, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) called for the immediate addition of 120 full-time staff at Sudbury’s Health Sciences North (HSN) to deal with higher patient volumes from this fall and winter’s COVID-19 wave and the coming flu season. This is on top of to the hundreds more staff needed…
KENORA, ON – Unless hospitals in northwestern Ontario hire 150 more staff (yearly), problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing shortages will deepen as the population ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at a media conference in Kenora today. CUPE based its call for the 150 new hospital staff…
TORONTO, ON – Unless Toronto area hospitals hire 15,000 staff annually, problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing shortages will deepen as the city’s population grows and ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) today at a media conference outside Toronto’s Scarborough General Hospital. CUPE based its call for the…
KITCHENER, ON – Unless Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) area hospitals hire 1,200 staff annually, problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing shortages will deepen as the population grows and ages, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) at a media conference in Kitchener today. CUPE based its call for the 1,200 new hospital…
