CUPE 5441 Survey

Unity Health Toronto Local 5441 Survey

This is an anonymous survey from your union, CUPE Local 5441. CUPE Research will tabulate the results and report back the overall results to your local union executive and CUPE National servicing staff. Individual results will not be reported. The overall results will help inform the work of your local union and build our campaigns to protect hospital workers. The survey should take 8  minutes.

We encourage and greatly appreciate your feedback.

The survey is closed (March 31, 2021.)

Thank You to everyone who completed the Survey.

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To celebrate the new website, we will be awarding prizes through a raffle draw. To participate in this raffle for a chance to win one of the prizes, please follow these easy steps:

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Information on vaccines

Dear sisters and brothers and friends,

Please find attached a link to the latest updated information on vaccination, including for health care workers, provided by the Ministry of Health.

In solidarity,

Michael, Louis, and Sharon

 

Special Communication on MOH Guidance Update: COVID-19 Vaccine Tools and Resources

Please note the vaccine tools and resources have been updated and are posted to the Ministry’s website. Highlights of changes are captured within documents, and new documents include information for AstraZeneca and COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccine. Descriptions of each document are also now indicated on the website.

Reminder: General Membership Meeting Wednesday March 17, 2021 via ZOOM

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Please sign in with your first name and either SMH or PHC or STJHC for recognition purposes
Topic: CUPE 5441 – March 2021 General Membership Meeting
Time: Mar 17, 2021 05:00 PM America/Toronto

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Meeting 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Please note that we have taken the steps to have our General Membership Meetings streamed virtually in light of the circumstances within our Province. To connect to the meeting virtually, you will be emailed a link to Zoom.

Agenda:
1. Acknowledgment of Indigenous territory
2. Roll call of officers
3. Reading of the Equality Statement
4. Voting on new members and initiation
5. Reading of the minutes
6. Matters arising from the minutes
7. Secretary-Treasurer’s Report
8. Communications and bills
9. Executive Board Report
10. Reports of committees and delegates
11. Nominations, elections, or installations
Nominations for Bargaining Committees: Clerical and Service for September 29, 2021
12. Unfinished business
13. New business
14. Good of the Union
15. Adjournment

If you have any anxiety or have any other concerns
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Employee Assistance Program: 866-606-6367

By-Election Results

Thank you to all the nominees for the executive positions that opened up during our by-elections. Two positions were vacated: Spiritual Care Practitioners Vice President and PHC Lead Steward Clerical.
This vote was done electronically by a third party company called SimplyVoting. Both elections ran from Thursday March 3rd through Saturday March 6th, 2021.

Congratulations to the two new executive board members of CUPE 5441:

Spiritual Care Practitioners Vice President: Jamie Villeneuve

PHC Lead Steward Clerical: Jennifer Wilson

International Women’s Day – March 8, 2021

 

HEALTHCARE WORKERS LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY ACTIONS WITH MESSAGE TO PREMIER FORD: “Respect Us. Protect Us. Pay Us.”

 

Unions representing 175,000 workers serving on the frontlines of this pandemic demand the Ford government support this female majority workforce

 

TORONTO, ON – Today, SEIU Healthcare, Unifor, and CUPE, unions representing 175,000 healthcare workers across Ontario, held a virtual media conference to announce the launch of International Women’s Day actions with a clear message to Premier Ford: “Respect Us. Protect Us. Pay Us.”

After shouldering the crushing burdens of the pandemic for the past year, workers in the healthcare sector—a majority female workforce—are calling on Premier Ford’s government to stand with working women, not on the side of a broken system that profits from their labour.

The following are their demands for respect, protection, and better pay for women in healthcare:

  • Reverse the staff exodus in health care by turning exploitative part-time work into full-time jobs with benefits
  • Provide paid-sick leave for Covid-19 related illnesses and providing pay while staff await Covid-19 test results or are in isolation
  • Provide the PPE that health care workers need to work safely
  • Make the initial $4 per hour “pandemic pay” available to all healthcare workers and made permanent going forward

Healthcare workers will demonstrate their demands at hospitals and nursing homes across Ontario on Monday, March 8, 2021 (International Women’s Day), by wearing stickers and holding signs that read: “Respect Us. Protect Us. Pay Us.”

Media and the public can follow demonstrations by working women in healthcare on social media with the hashtag: #RespectProtectPay

QUOTES:

“This International Women’s Day, women in healthcare want more than hollow words from Premier Ford’s government. After the devastating financial and emotional toll from serving on the frontline of the pandemic, healthcare workers want those words backed up by bold action to fully recognize their contribution to the care economy. That must include paying them a living wage, and for low-wage workers like PSWs, that means raising the base wage to at least $25 per hour. Premier Ford could support working women in healthcare by doing that right away.” – Sharleen Stewart, President, SEIU Healthcare

“The lack of respect for care work has become painfully evident during COVID-19 but it stems from a longstanding failure to recognize the value of this work simply because women are performing it. This is evidenced by workers in health and long-term care who are often precariously employed and not paid a living wage. Full-time work with benefits is rarely available and they are forced to work at multiple jobs to simply survive.” – Katha Fortier, Assistant to the National President, Unifor

“Nearly 20,000 health care workers have contracted COVID-19 at work and 20 have died. Although health care staff were entitled to an N95 mask they couldn’t get one from their employers. They were told that this wasn’t necessary. The masks are under lock and key. This must change. This valuable female workforce deserves respect, protection and better pay. Mandating the N95 mask, as Quebec has done and $4.00 an hour in the form of pandemic pay would be strong gestures of appreciation by the Ontario provincial government.” – Sharon Richer, Secretary-Treasurer, Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE)

Corey Johnson
SEIU Healthcare Communications
c.johnson@seiuhealthcare.ca
416-529-8909

Stella Yeadon
CUPE Communications
syeadon@cupe.ca
416-559-9300

Kathleen O’Keefe
Unifor Communications
kathleen.okeefe@unifor.org
416-896-3303