Home Care
CUPE home care workers discuss common challenges
Jun 24, 2011 02:41 PM CUPE members working in the home care sector met this week in Ottawa to share information and develop strategies to improve working conditions and the availability of services to clients in the sector. more »
Value PSWs on Personal Support Workers Day — dignify them with better rates of pay
May 19, 2011 11:43 AM Communities across Ontario are, today, celebrating the important work Personal Support Workers do in our health care system and in a multitude of community settings providing vital assistance to seniors, people with disabilities, those with chronic health conditions and, in some cases, children, province-wide. more »
Homecare Privatization in Crisis
Feb 25, 2010 11:44 AM Compulsory contracting out of homecare services was introduced by the Mike Harris Conservative government in the mid-1990s. Unlike public hospitals, which directly provide health care services, Community Care Access Centres (CCACs) are required to contract out homecare services. This was part of a drive by transnational corporations to skim profits from public health care dollars, a drive that has now moved into other health care sectors. The results have been extremely negative. more »
- Competitive bidding hurting homecare in Ontario 08/18/11
- VON Cumberland employees hope payroll problems will be rectified 07/06/11
- Tentative agreement reached between CUPE and Braemore Home in Sydney 04/07/11
- CUPE and Braemore Home head to conciliation 04/07/11
- Already damaged home care system at risk again as Liberals lift ban on competitive bidding, CUPE and Ontario Health Coalition warn! 05/06/10
- Already damaged home care system at risk again as Liberals about to lift ban on competitive bidding, CUPE and Ontario Health Coalition warn! 04/08/10
- Already damaged home care system at risk again as Liberals about to lift ban on competitive bidding when contracts expire March 31 CUPE and Ontario Health Coalition warn! 03/31/10
- Already damaged home care system at risk again as Liberals about to lift ban on competitive bidding when contracts expire March 31 CUPE and Ontario Health Coalition warn! 03/16/10
- Ontario’s already damaged home care system at risk again as Ontario poised to lift ban on competitive bidding when service contracts end March 31 03/15/10
- CUPE organizing to protect home care 02/26/10