Toronto, ON – Now that the “ill-conceived” registry for personal support workers (PSWs) has been scrapped, the 20,000 PSWs represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario in long-term care, hospitals and community care are asking for the issue of regulation for PSWs to be made a priority. Educational requirements and occupational demands…
Toronto, ON – Far from fixing a disjointed and mostly private home care system that does not provide patients with adequate levels of care at home, the report released today by Ontario’s Expert Group on Home and Community Care, promotes ideas that will further compromise care quality, and increase privatization and service inequity, says the…
CHATHAM, Ont. – Despite severe mobility issues and a history of kidney problems, Anne Howley’s 84-year old mom Joyce only receives three, half-hour home care visits a week from the Erie St. Clair Community Care Access Centre (CCAC). Howley’s and her mom’s story, is one of several dozen compelling stories left by residents from communities…
LONDON, Ont. – There are hundreds of ill, elderly or socially isolated people in London, Grey Bruce and other communities in southwestern Ontario who need home care but aren’t getting it, said Fred Hahn, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario at a London media conference today. “We want to hear from…
LONDON, Ont. – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario is launching a new hotline for patients affected by a spate of home care cuts in London, Grey/Bruce and many communities across southwestern Ontario. The 1-888 hotline number will be announced at a media conference in London on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, at 11…
Call CUPE Ontario’s home care hotline (1-888-599-0770), tell us your story CORNWALL, Ont. – There are hundreds of ill, elderly or socially isolated people in Cornwall and the eastern Ontario counties who need home care but aren’t getting it, said the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario at a Cornwall media conference today. “We want…
