Category: Bargaining
Doug Ford would face massive labour unrest in the hospitals if staff didn’t put patients’ interests ahead of their own as negotiations for 70,000 on the front-lines derail over PC Bill 124 wage cut, lack of protections
Hospital staff are angered and stunned by how the Ontario government and the hospital employers are treating them following two years of pandemic sacrifice as provincial bargaining broke down May 14, says the Ontario Council of...
Read MoreAs part of ongoing efforts to bargain better outcomes for patient care and hospital staff, health care unions launch television ads aimed at the OHA
Three unions negotiating with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) to resolve the ongoing hospital staffing crisis, job safety concerns and pandemic-related mental health supports, today launched a province-wide television advertising blitz to fix the mess and save hospital care in Ontario.
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Repeal Bill 124 – Regional Rallies
Join us in May for regional rallies in Toronto, Oshawa, Ottawa, Sudbury and Hamilton.
Read MoreBig support for nurses, ward clerks and other hospital staff, Toronto/GTA poll shows
So why, just weeks from an election, are the Ford PCs offside in their treatment of hospital workers?
Read MoreScrapping Bill 124, that cuts the real wages of health care workers, is the only right thing to do protestors tell MPP MacLeod
Ottawa area hospital and long-term care workers protested today at the Nepean office of PC MPP Lisa MacLeod asking her to stand with them to push to repeal the Ford government’s wage legislation that cuts their wages and prevents them from bargaining badly needed mental health supports.
Read MoreJoint letter to Doug Ford re: nursing retention bonus
From OCHU-CUPE, SEIU Healthcare, ONA and Unifor leadership.
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Nursing retention bonus Q&A
Who is eligible for the nursing retention bonus, and more answers to your questions.
Read MoreOntario Opposition leaders to join hospital workers in delivering thousands of messages to Doug Ford at Queen’s Park on Tuesday
While their pandemic efforts have been generously praised by Doug Ford’s Ontario government, front-line hospital workers are asking for Bill 124, the wage cap legislation that devalues them and is fueling an exodus of staff from...
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Send a postcard to Doug Ford
Add your name and tell Doug Ford to repeal Bill 124.
Read MoreBringing hospital, long-term care staff sick with COVID-19 back to work early, dangerous way to deal with staffing crisis say CUPE and SEIU
Two of Ontario’s largest health care unions are asking the provincial government to rescind a new pandemic guidance order they believe creates an unacceptable level of risk for hospital patients, long-term care residents and health care staff by enabling hospitals and long-term care employers to order potentially sick or still infectious health care workers with COVID-19 back to work.
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OCHU calls on Government to Pay PSW Wage Enhancement
Many of our affiliated hospital local unions have reported that their PSWs are not receiving the latest extension of the PSW wage enhancement of $2. an hour.
We made several outreaches to the Ministry of Health, without response and today we have written to the Premier and the Minister of Health.
Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis
Ontario’s hospitals, long-term care (LTC) and home care services face critical and growing staffing crises. Our province’s health care system is not on the brink of crisis, it is in crisis. It is not an overstatement...
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Stop violence against hospital workers
