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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.
Latest Updates
Now is the time for Premier to commit to a moratorium on for-profit long-term care, bed expansion only in municipal and non-profit homes
TORONTO, ON – Care and staff levels reforms to improve care quality in long-term care are needed now and the Ontario government should put an immediate focus on expanding beds only in non-profit homes while placing a moratorium on new for-profit beds, says Candace...
Contact your MPP – Fight Bill 195
On July 7, 2020, the Solicitor General tabled Bill 195, the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020 (“Bill 195”). Bill 195 permits the government to continue to maintain and modify emergency orders made under the Emergency Management and Civil...
“Front-line workers deserve a permanent pay increase”: CUPE Ontario says reopening is time for a new normal
(TORONTO, ON) With Toronto and Peel joining nearly all of Ontario in entering Stage 2 of reopening, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario calls for a new normal with a permanent front-line pay increase. Until August 16, almost 400,000 front-line...
Resumption of Visits in LTC and Retirement Homes
The province has announced a phased approach for the resumption of visits in LTC and Retirement Homes. To facilitate this Directive #3 has been updated, and two guidance documents have been created. The updated Directive also lays out the requirements for admissions...
What Ontario knew, Part 1: The 2019 report on violence in long-term care
TVO.org speaks with Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, about a 2019 report that outlined the violence LTC staff face — and about what needs to be done to keep them safe The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Ontario’s long-term-care homes....
Ventilation in Long-Term Care and Group Homes
With the arrival of warmer weather, there is a concern that the use of a fan or a similar personal comfort device may impact ventilation systems that are optimized to prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. There are a few considerations that must take...
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.