Central Bargaining
As part of OCHU, CUPE 5001 is participating in central bargaining for a fair contract for hospital workers across the province of Ontario. We have teamed up with SEIU, in order to negotiate with a unified voice. The Ford Conservatives have attacked hospital workers by imposing a 1% limit to negotiated wage increases (this amounts to a reduction in wages when factoring in inflation) and demanding concessions from workers. This comes after hospital workers were called heroes for putting their lives to work on the front lines of a pandemic that is still not over.
Read the latest bargaining bulletin about central bargaining and find out how you can help stand up to the Ford Conservatives’ attacks on hospital workers and Ontario’s public health care system.
Bargaining Update – Summer 2021
Repeal Bill 124
Health-care workers who have been there for patients and their families in every corner of Ontario throughout the COVID-19 pandemic are telling the Ford government that its wage restraint program profoundly devalues the contribution they’ve made, and that it must go now.
For nearly 16 months, front-line health care staff have overcome challenge after challenge battling the coronavirus. Nearly 23,000 health-care workers have been infected with COVID-19, and 24 have died. They have worked extended shifts, mandatory overtime, weekend after weekend, with vacations cancelled, isolating from their families to protect them, without complaint because they knew the people of Ontario need them.
It’s time to tell the Ford Conservatives to repeal Bill 124