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CUPE is Ontario’s union for long-term care workers. Talk to an organizer today and learn how we can help you build a stronger, more secure workplace.
Workers in more than 240 retirement and long-term care facilities in Ontario are CUPE members. Over the year’s we’ve won many important victories for long-term care workers and residents, and continue to lead the way.
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New report finds 1400 seniors who died from COVID-19 would not have if Ontario had a fully public long-term care system: Time to make election a referendum on private health care
More than 1400 seniors died from COVID-19 than would have if Ontario had a fully public long-term care system, according to a new report released today. That is a key lesson for voters in the June 2 election, since the Doug Ford PC’s have said they will deal with the...
Who will staff new long-term care beds?
A severe, provincewide staffing shortage will prevent many of the Ford government’s promised new long-term care beds, including those announced today in Ottawa, from opening, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the province’s largest healthcare...
Who will staff new Vaughan long-term care beds?
A severe, provincewide staffing shortage will prevent many of the Ford government’s promised new long-term care beds, including those announced today in Vaughan, from opening, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the province’s largest...
Revera and Extendicare’s corporate shell game hurts long-term care residents and workers
Long-term care (LTC) corporation, Revera, has announced significant changes to its ownership and operations which will treat LTC facilities as commodities to be bought and sold for profit rather than homes and workplaces. This corporate shell game hurts LTC residents...
Letter to Premier Ford re: Nurse “retention bonus”
March 7, 2022Dear Premier Ford,On behalf of 220,000 union members in the health care system, and more than 18,000 nursing students,we are once again cautioning you against further demoralizing the workforce by providing one-timepayments to some, but not all, health...
Canadian pensions bankrolling elder abuse and misappropriation of public money by French long-term care multinational
A new report by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) reveals that Europe’s largest long-term care home operator, Orpea, has been building a property empire while facing allegations of elder abuse and misappropriation of...
CUPE Campaign To Make Long-Term Care Public
Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), has launched a campaign to fix Canada’s broken long-term care system, by making it a part of our public universal health care system.