Feb 10, 2022 | Main page news
Front-line workers in Peel’s long-term care homes who are members of CUPE 966 are publicly lauding Regional Council for its collaborative approach to the staffing crisis and listening to their appeals for more full-time resident care staff. In a letter sent...
Feb 4, 2022 | Main page news
CUPE has joined with the CFNU, NUPGE and SEIU Canada to call on the federal government to increase the Canada Health Transfer, while also demanding stronger national standards for how provinces spend the money. As the Council of the Federation prepares to meet...
Jan 7, 2022 | Main page news
More than 26,000 health-care workers in Ontario have contracted COVID-19 at work and 24 are believed to have died, a workers’ union claims. The statement was made by Michael Hurley, vice-president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, citing...
Dec 16, 2021 | Main page news
Dr. Kieran Moore393 University Ave., 21st FloorToronto, ON M5G 2M2 Dear Dr. Moore Re: Directive #5 Issued under Section 77.7 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act We write to you on behalf of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions...
Dec 7, 2021 | Main page news
TORONTO, ON – With health care job vacancies skyrocketing, new long-term care beds and a provincial government fond of “Band-Aid” health workforce approaches, Ontarians will see unprecedented health care staff shortages of more than 50,000 workers over the next few...
Nov 17, 2021 | Main page news
Peterborough, ON — Following repeated attempts to get a meeting with local PC MPP Dave Smith, frustrated St. Joseph at Fleming front-line care staff will be making a special delivery to his constituency office (123 Water St., Peterborough) on Friday, November 19,...
