The National Health Care Issues Committee provides advice to the CUPE National Executive Board on how CUPE can defend and promote publicly funded and delivered health care; negotiate improved wages and working conditions for health care members; organize new health care members; and work in coalition with other unions and public health care advocates.
Committee members help carry out projects and campaigns, and liaise with their respective divisions and health care locals, committees and other bodies.
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Health Care
A universal, not-for-profit public health care system is the best way to provide health services to Canadians.
CUPE fights for quality public health services. We want to protect existing services, like hospitals, and strengthen and broaden other services like long-term care and home care and accessibility to prescription drugs.CUPE represents the largest number of employees in the health care system – 190,000 – including auxiliary nurses, support staff and paramedics.
Sector profile: Health Care
CUPE represents over 225,000 health care workers from coast to coast. Approximately 190,000 of those members work in dedicated health care locals such as hospitals, long-term care, community and public health, home care, and at Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec. The remaining members work primarily in the Municipal and Social Services sectors.