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Representatives of CUPE 3247, which represents more than 6,000 workers at the Montérégie-Ouest Integrated Health and Social Services Centre (CISSSMO), met with Alexandre Daneau, newly elected member of the Québec National Assembly for the riding of Beauharnois, in Montérégie region.

Last week, HHS notified CUPE about the first wave of 413 staff cuts at the hospitals: 97 eliminations of health care workers across the hospital including surgical units and operating rooms.

Today, unions gathered with Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, government representatives, and representatives from Deloitte, to hear the results of the Core Staffing Review carried out over the last year.

Frontline continuing care assistants (CCAs) are sounding the alarm over unsafe staffing levels, inadequate time to care for patients, and worsening working conditions in Saskatchewan’s health care system.

Ontario’s funding of for-profit surgical and medical imaging (MRI) services is increasing wait time and threatening public health care, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

CUPE’s hospital division, the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), and CUPE Ontario’s Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee (HCWCC) jointly held a rally in Toronto on Tuesday demanding fair regulations for PSWs.

Hamilton Health Sciences’ plan to eliminate 413 jobs would further undermine services at a hospital already buckling under the pressure of rising demand and insufficient staffing, says CUPE.

The workers at Bruyere Health have found strong community support in their campaign to stop the degradation of care at their hospital, where 55 frontline jobs are being axed. Over the past few weeks, 1,400 people have signed a petition imploring hospital management to “Stop the Cuts.”

After months of scrutiny over its practices, the private company that Canadian Blood Services contracted to collect plasma has paused its Canadian operations. CUPE is calling on the federal government to finally put public safety ahead of corporate profits, make the pause permanent and end for-profit plasma collection in Canada.

The union representing workers at Extendicare Crossing Bridge in Ottawa is calling attention to the continued delays at the bargaining table. CUPE 1307 is one of eight CUPE locals participating in the Extendicare Central Table bargaining.