Guelph, ON – The decision to lay off 39 personal support workers at Guelph General Hospital is a grave mistake that will badly hurt workplace morale and harm the quality of patient care, said CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE). Guelph General staff and community allies held a rally on Monday morning in response…
Burlington, ON – CUPE health care workers at Joseph Brant Hospital held a demonstration today protesting job cuts that pose serious risks to patient care and expose the government’s policy of underfunding hospitals. The hospital is eliminating 10 frontline positions: seven housekeepers, an operating room assistant, and an occupational therapist- all vital to patient care.…
The Ford government has committed to covering only a fraction of hospital’s operating costs Hamilton, ON – The union representing about 4,750 staff at Hamilton Health Sciences is alarmed about the hospital’s staffing review in light of a $112 million projected deficit for 2024. The provincial government’s lack of commitment to covering full operating costs…
Toronto, ON – Health-care workers at SickKids Hospital in Toronto are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff. Last week, SickKids announced that it will not be paying into the staff pension plan for yet another year – it has only…
In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead TORONTO – Symbolizing the threat of the plan to privatize hospital surgeries, a 15-foot replica of the Trojan Horse visited legislators at Queen’s Park today. The metaphor…
TORONTO – Staff at SickKids Hospital organized a demonstration today, calling on the employer to join the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). The call comes after workers became aware that their current pension will leave them retiring in poverty because the employer failed to contribute to the plan for decades. SickKids is set to…
New analysis shows province faces a 13,800 shortfall of hospital beds by 2032 Ontario’s hospital capacity crisis will worsen in the coming years as government funding will fall short of even maintaining current levels of service, according to a new research report produced by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE). Citing latest data on…
TORONTO – In response to new research showing that wealthy Ontarians are disproportionately benefiting from for-profit clinics, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions is demanding the province halt public funding for private surgeries and invest in cataracts provided by public hospitals. A study by the Canadian Medical Associations Journal released yesterday says that surgical rates…
TORONTO – The Premier’s recent comments in the media shows “a callous attitude” towards the hospital crisis, where overcrowding has increased by 30 percent since 2018, said Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), referring to Doug Ford’s gaffe about overflow patients having the option of receiving treatment at a new…
TORONTO – A new peer-reviewed study released today in Toronto warns that Ontario’s hospital workers, most of whom are women and many racialized, are in deep turmoil as they labour through an intensifying staffing crisis that is harming their well-being and compromising patient care. Running on Empty, published in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental…
