MEDIA ADVISORY: CUPE Ontario’s ‘Support Our Care’ action days kick off in Peterborough!

Event Information

Begins: 17 July 2024
Location: Peterborough, ON

Peterborough health care workers gather petition signatures alongside the Wildside Food Truck!

PETERBOROUGH, ON –(COMMUNITYWIRE)– This afternoon a delegation of health care workers in Peterborough will kick off the CUPE Ontario Support Our Care days of action campaign. The health care workers will gather petition signatures alongside the Wildside Food Truck.

Launched by the CUPE Ontario Health Care Workers Coordinating Committee (HCWCC), the Support Our Care campaign calls on the Ontario Conservative government to heavily invest in health care, raise the wages of health care workers, focus on the recruitment and retention of health care workers across sectors, and strengthen workers’ rights.

Wednesday’s action is one of seven HCWCC actions across Ontario over the summer and early fall. The actions aim to raise awareness of the extreme stress, exhaustion, and burnout Ontario health care workers feel on and off the job, day in and day out.

WHAT:
CUPE health care workers to gather petition signatures for the Support Our Care campaign alongside the Wildside Food Truck

WHO:
CUPE Health Care Workers.

WHERE:
390 Ashburnham Dr, Peterborough.

WHEN:
TODAY, Wednesday July 17, 2 p.m. – 7 p.m. 

For media inquiries, contact:  

Shannon Carranco, CUPE Communications
scarranco@cupe.ca