The CUPE Ontario Public Health Workers Committee is heading back to Queen’s Park on November 26, 2025 to deliver a message to our Ontario MPPs that we are important to the communities we serve, and we need to be funded properly to provide the wide array of services Public Health is know, or not known for!
We are holding media interviews in the morning to raise awareness about Public Health hot topics including the resurgence of measles, alarming sexual health trends, and water safety of non-municipal drinking water systems in rural Ontario.
In the afternoon, we will be meeting with MPPs for a round table discussion.
How can you help?
This year we are asking you, our fellow Public Health Workers, to send a message to your local MPP asking them, as a someone living in their riding, to attend this meeting.
Use the link here find your MPP.
Communication guide is included on how to send them an email with your message and how a follow up phone call to their office is the icing on the cake.
We want our voices heard and this is a way to make it happen. If you have followed the progress of this group, you know that we are not going to stop advocating for the rejuvenation of our public health system.
Nov 26 Public Health Day of Action is just the beginning! We are preparing an action to engage all 5000 CUPE public health workers to organize and collectively advocate for our profession. We are deeply concerned that if we leave Public Health in the hands of the politicians, there won’t be much of Public Health left!
In solidarity,
Merima Kostecki
Chair – CUPE Ontario Public Health Committee