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Many CUPE and OPSEU classifications will be adjusted up as arbitrator awards harmonization to the highest rate for similar jobs. Just the latest in a series of successes for L.139...Download full newsletterThe North Bay Nugget: CUPE Launches Infection Fight
HEALTH: Ministry urged to increase funding to fight superbugs The North Bay Nugget
Mon Mar 7 2011
Page: A3
Section: News
Byline: PJ WILSON THE NUGGET
Between 3,000 and 5,000 Ontarians die each year from infectious diseases picked up in hospitals.
Those deaths are totally preventable," Michael Hurley, president of the Ontar io Council of Hospital Unions of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said Friday in North Bay.
Hurley was in the city to kick off a Northern Ontario campaign to try to convince the provincial government, through the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care, to invest more money into fighting the growth of superbugs...read full article
For release: March 4, 2011
Northern Ontario hospital-acquired infection tour launches
NORTH BAY, Ont. – At a North Bay media conference today, hospital staff urged Ontario’s health minister to bring down death rates from hospital-acquired infections by lowering hospital occupancy rates, doing a deep clean of Ontario’s hospitals and providing more resources for cleaning and infection control.Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), said the suffering and deaths of thousands of Ontarians from hospital-acquired infections are so regrettable because they are preventable. To draw attention to this leading cause of preventable death, CUPE is launching a 15 community tour of northern Ontario, using a theatre set representing a hospital room to demonstrate the disinfection of a room that has been occupied by a patient with a superbug like C. Difficile, VRE or MRSA...read more
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There are huge differences in the two contracts. CUPE offers you a lot more. We have also harmonized wages...Download full ComparisonRegistered Practical Nurse and CUPE
"Pride in our Profession - Registered Practical Nurses" is CUPE's theme for Nurses Week
Hospital locals will celebrate Nurses’ week in 2011, with a number of special events.The Registered Practical Nurses’ committee of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE has themed Nurses’ week ‘ Pride in our profession- Registered Practical Nurses ‘....Download full newsletter
Media Advisory: March 8, 2011
Quality patient care focus of CUPE regional registered practical nurses (RPNs) conference in North Bay
NORTH BAY, Ont. –Area Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) will be joined by RPNs from Sudbury and New Leskeard in North Bay today (March 8, 2011) at a regional conference focused on quality patient care, RPN skill utilization and sharing best practices.
Increasingly RPNs are vital members of the health care team in both hospital and
long –term care facilities. There are over 28,800 registered practical nurses (RPNs) working in a variety of health care settings in Ontario. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) represents 37.4 per cent – about 10,000 – of the RPN workforce in Ontario.
The CUPE Northern Ontario Regional RPN Conference is being held at the Royal Canadian Legion, 150 First Ave. West, North Bay and begins at 10 a.m...click here to find out more about upcoming RPN Conferences and RPN resources.
Hospital union calls on province to cover the deficit of the North Bay General Hospital
NORTH BAY, ON, Feb. 18 /CNW/ - The Ontario government should fund the $6 million deficit of the North Bay General Hospital, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE requested today. OCHU represents 25,000 nurses, tradespersons, clerical, housekeeping, dietary and support and service staff at 65 Ontario hospitals, including employees represented by CUPE Local 139 at the North Bay General Hospital.Ontario Council of Hospital Unions President Michael Hurley said "the North Bay General Hospital has a deficit because the population of Nipissing is aging and is using its services more frequently. Ontario has the most efficient hospital system in Canada, with the shortest lengths of stay and the fewest numbers of beds and staff to population of any province. The hospital is not being funded to cover the increased use of its services. The answer is not cuts, which will make the hospital less efficient, but real funding increases and a solution to the deficit problem."
OCHU and CUPE Local 139 will kick off a community postcard(*) and button campaign today targeted at Hon. Monique Smith, Government House Leader, Minister of Tourism and MPP for Nipissing.
This campaign was approved at a CUPE Local 139 membership meeting held last evening at 7:30 p.m. at the CUPE Local 139 office Regency Square (Airport O'Brien).