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 260,000 health care workers across Canada. Our members work in dedicated health care sites like hospitals, long-term care facilities, community and public health, home care and at Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec. We also represent members in health-related jobs in municipal and social services. Our members, like other health care workers, are on the front lines of a system crisis that has deepened after the COVID-19 pandemic. They work to protect every one of us, even when their own health and safety are at risk.