Media Releases

Front-line workers at the Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie say they desperately need a real wage increase if the health centre doesn’t want to lose more staff. In January, the Group Health Centre announced that eight physicians would be leaving the centre at the end of May, leaving 10,000 patients in the area without a family doctor. 

There is a network of nurses and personal support workers doing hundreds of in-home healthcare visits to seniors across eastern Ontario every day. It appears seamless, except the infrastructure behind that network – the 70 health administrators who schedule visits, book appointments, manage sick calls and more – is cracking.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOSHAWA, ON – CUPE 6364 workers at Lakeridge Health rallied in Oshawa today, protesting “cuts and chaos” in response to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETORONTO – In just six years, the average wages earned by workers in the female-dominated sectors of health care, education and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOther Articles

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESUDBURY, ON - A new poll paints a grim picture about the staffing crisis in Northern Ontario hospitals, as 90 per cent of...