Dryden patients, hospital face grim future under years of Conservative...
DRYDEN, ON – Although Dryden’s population is aging, Ontario’s Conservative government is planning multiple years of deep budget cuts to the Dryden Regional Health Centre. “What’s coming will be bigger...
View ArticleSault hospitals’ funding cut will climb to $26.5 million by 2023 under Ford...
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Patient access to hospital care and services will be greatly diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future real funding cuts to health care that, in 2023,...
View ArticleProvincial funding cut to Thunder Bay hospitals will climb to $55.6 million...
THUNDER BAY, ON – Patient access to hospital care and services will be greatly diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future real funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will...
View ArticleProvincial funding cut to Dryden hospital will climb to $1.25 million by 2023...
DRYDEN, ON – Patient access to hospital care and services will be greatly diminished if the Doug Ford Conservatives move forward with future real funding cuts to health care that, in 2023, will climb...
View ArticleAs McMaster education workers hold strike vote, support pours in from across...
HAMILTON, ON – As education workers at McMaster University began voting today on whether to give their bargaining committee a mandate to take whatever steps they deem necessary to secure a fair...
View ArticlePeel Region municipal workers highlight their work in new ad campaign
PEEL, ON – Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 966 (CUPE Local 966), representing municipal workers with the Region of Peel, are highlighting their work and their commitment to the...
View ArticleWith many troubling allegations tied to closure of Hamilton/Niagara forensic...
HAMILTON, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is calling on the provincial Conservatives to launch an independent review of the decision to close forensic pathology services in the...
View ArticleCare staff at Gravenhurst Sienna Senior Living take rare step of picketing...
GRAVENHURST, ON – Area long-term care staff, who have for many years openly advocated for increased care levels for residents, are taking the rare step of going public with a workplace-related issue...
View ArticleWith record high hallway medicine, how will Northumberland’s hospitals fare...
COBOURG, ON – Already struggling with increasing hallway health care and the flu season in the offing, how will Northumberland’s hospitals fare under the strain of billions of dollars more in...
View ArticleNorthumberland Hills hospital on track for a loss akin to 12 beds and 97...
COBOURG, ON – A report released today in Cobourg shows that hospitals in Northumberland could lose (in today’s terms) 12 beds and 97 staff under the provincial Conservatives’ fiscal plan. Patients,...
View ArticleTalks will resume today for CUPE education workers
TORONTO, ON – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will resume bargaining today with the Council of Trustees’ Association and the Government of Ontario, on behalf of 55,000 education workers....
View ArticleCUPE city workers team up with Windsor-Essex food bank to deliver...
WINDSOR, ON – Members of Local 543 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 543) have packed up 600 hampers containing everything needed for a complete Thanksgiving dinner, as part of their...
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