National Campaign to Fix Long Term Care / Campagne nationale visant à repenser les soins de longue durée

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This pandemic has hit us hard everywhere – but the staff and residents in long term care have been hit particularly hard. Four out of five COVID-19 related deaths in Canada have either been staff or residents of a long-term care home – the worst record in the developed world.


That’s why this week CUPE has launched a national campaign to Fix Long-Term Care – more details are available at www.fixlongtermcare.ca.


The campaign calls on the federal government to make Long Term Care an accessible, publicly funded, and universal health care service covered by the Canada Health Act. We are further calling for national standards of care, an increase to the number of staff and beds, and for the government to provide adequate and stable funding, removing profit from the system.


The website has an e-action where you can send a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and your MP and has a sign that can be printed and put in your window to show your support.

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Cette pandémie nous a tous durement frappés. Mais, le personnel et les résidents des foyers de soins de longue durée ont été particulièrement touchés. Au Canada, quatre décès sur cinq liés à la COVID-19 sont ceux de membres du personnel ou de résidents d’un foyer de soins de longue durée, le pire bilan du monde développé.


C’est pourquoi le SCFP a lancé cette semaine une campagne nationale visant à repenser les soins de longue durée. Pour en savoir plus, consultez https://repenserlessoins.ca/.


La campagne exhorte le gouvernement fédéral à faire des soins de longue durée un service de soins de santé accessible, public et universel, régi par la Loi canadienne sur la santé. Nous demandons en outre la mise en place de normes nationales de soins et une augmentation du nombre d’employés et de lits. Nous réclamons aussi que le gouvernement fournisse un financement adéquat et stable, éliminant ainsi toute possibilité de profit.


Le site Web propose une action en ligne qui vous permet d’envoyer une lettre au Premier ministre Trudeau et à votre député et qui com

Special offer for Ontario union members

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Despite the importance of observing social distancing and stay-at-home measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, CUPE members may find they need to travel to Toronto to support family members, access medical care, or connect to other essential services that may not be available in their communities.

We wanted to let you know that the Sheraton Centre Toronto is offering a special rate of $89.00 plus tax for CUPE Ontario members until labour day. 

Click here to book at this special rate for CUPE Ontario members.

Pandemic Pay Subsidy Protest – May 14

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Both of these workers care for patients at the bedside (including COVID patients), but only one is considered a front-line worker in the eyes of the Ford government. Join our action Thursday, May 14. We are all on the front line.

Organize your members to take a few moments during the afternoon shift change on Thursday to protest in front of the hospital by holding up this poster. Please respect social distancing.

Send your photos to admin@ochu.on.ca, tag us on Facebook or Twitter, or use the hashtags #SaveLivesN95s and #hcwCOVID2019 to share your photos.

Members can also write their job title on a piece of paper (write BIG and BOLD–sharpies work best!) that they can hold up along with the official poster to show disparity between job classifications.

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Tell the premier that ALL health care workers deserve Pandemic Pay

Pandemic Pay: Questions and Answers

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On Saturday, April 25th the Ontario Government announced its intention to issue Pandemic Pay in the period from April 24th to August 12th for some workers in some workplaces.

Literally from the time of the announcement there have been many questions about Pandemic Pay.

CUPE Ontario has prepared a brief Q&A, available by clicking here, that addresses these issues based on what we know as of May 7, 2020.

CUPE Ontario continues to lobby the government with formal, detailed proposals to expand the list of eligible workplaces and eligible workers, to widen the applicability of pandemic pay to pensions, overtime and sick time and, most important, to make pandemic pay permanent and ongoing.

We will do our best to keep CUPE Locals and members updated about these important issues.

In the meantime, we have an e-action so that members can be part of that important lobby to apply pressure to government, available by clicking here.

In solidarity,

Day of Action – May 6

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Since the start of COVID-19 pandemic hit Ontario, 2892 health care workers have been infected with COVID-19. Those on the health care front lines now account for 15.8 per cent of the province’s COVID cases. The number is trending up, not down. Four health care workers have died.

Join OCHU and CUPE Ontario in a workplace action protesting the lack of protections, and call on the Premier for help.

We are asking all CUPE health care members to hold up these two posters in the workplace at approximately 11:00 a.m. on May 6. Members should stand side by side, one holding up the number sheet and one holding up the Help Us! sheet (if possible).

Please send photos to admin@ochu.on.ca, or tag us on Facebook or Twitter, using the hashtag #hcwCOVID19.

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