Category: Health and Safety
Contact your MPP – Pandemic Pay for all front-line health care workers
Tell your MPP that ALL front-line health care workers deserve pandemic pay.
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Ontario is failing to protect heath-care workers
Op-ed from OCHU RPNs Pam Parks, Judy Bain and Maggie Jewell
Read MoreOntario PPE guidelines based on supply, not protecting workers
Jim Brophy, occupational health expert, says guidelines are not based on scientific evidence
Read MoreSick of the System
Why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary
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Day of Action – May 6
Join OCHU and CUPE Ontario in a workplace action protesting the lack of protections, and call on the Premier for help.
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All front-line health care workers deserve pandemic pay
Send a message to Premier Ford, and Hon. Ministers Christine Elliott and Peter Bethlenfalvy to show you support front-line health care workers.
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As outbreaks in Ontario long-term care homes continue why are residents not being taken to hospital for higher care?
As thousands of hospital staff from many different occupations selflessly volunteer to work in long-term care (LTC) homes afflicted with Covid-19 outbreaks, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is asking whether the decision not to transfer residents to hospital is sound.
Read MoreLetter to the Premier
CUPE, SEIU, Unifor, and OPSEU have written to the Premier asking for the Ontario government to pay for part-time for their sick leave and due to COVID-19, to pay part-time and full-time for isolation and quarantine for COVID-19 and to make whole losses incurred by any health care worker as a result of the one site policy in effect in long term care.
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Days of action results in breakthrough in PPE
Due to your participation in our days of action, we were able to push the government to provide all health care workers with access to personal protective equipment.
Read MoreOpen letter to the Premier of Ontario
From SEIU, CUPE, OPSEU and Unifor
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Ontario health care workers need protections now, Premier must use emergency powers to order mass production of masks
Ontario’s Premier today told health care staff fighting COVID-19 that following next week, they will be left exposed, without the personal protections needed to keep them from getting infected.
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