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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
Mark Hancock calls on Trudeau to fix long-term care now
CUPE National President Mark Hancock wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week, calling on him to fix Canada’s broken long-term care system now. CUPE represents 65,000 workers in long-term care across Canada, and Hancock has pledged to fight to improve their...
Ontario Regulation 210/20 Management of Long-Term Care Homes Affected by an Outbreak
On may 12th the Ford Government enacted a regulation that gives them the authority to appoint someone to manage or to help manage a long-term care home in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak. The Regulation does not transfer ownership of the long-term care home to the...
Public universal long-term care now.
https://www.facebook.com/cupescfp/videos/238315847232488/ Amanda Vyce, CUPE researcher, and Lou Black, HEU researcher, testified to the parliamentary Health Care Committee yesterday on the importance of bringing long-term care under the Canada Health Act. Amanda Vyce,...
We have a big problem when 2892 Ontario healthcare workers get COVID. Wednesday they protest the lack of protections
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Ontario, 2892 healthcare workers have been infected with COVID-19. Those on the healthcare front lines now account for 15.8 percent of the province's COVID cases. The number is trending up, not down. Four of them have died. On...
All front-line healthcare workers deserve pandemic pay
Thousands of workers across Ontario are putting themselves at risk to deliver the vital public services our communities depend on during the COVID-19 pandemic. But many were excluded from recent pandemic pay increases announced by the Ford Conservatives. Follow this...
Pension on a first contract
Good pensions are among the hardest things for workers to negotiate into a collective agreement. But after a protracted struggle, workers at an Amica facility in Newmarket, Ontario, won a pension on their first collective agreement. CUPE is proud to offer some of the...
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.