For-profit nursing homes must put residents first by prioritizing staff-to-resident ratios! That was the message hundreds of ONA members delivered to employers as they picketed outside for-profit nursing homes across the province today.
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#CareNotProfit

In October 2023, after the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, western governments, based on reports from their security services, quickly proclaimed Israel was not to blame.

Since then Israel has destroyed all 36 hospitals in Gaza.

There is a lesson here…

The crisis in home & community health will worsen, access will be restricted further & rationing of care will accelerate & strain an overwhelmed hospital system. This government must take responsibility for its aging population & commit to real growth as the baby boom ages out.

The budget: not enough to improve hospital staffing & capacity; not enough to respond to population growth & aging; not enough to stop ER closures, reduce surgical waitlists, or seriously address hallway healthcare. Just enough funding to maintain a perpetual crisis of care.

Great rally today at Lakeridge Health, protesting 60 jobs slashed at hospitals serving one of the fastest growing regions in Ontario, saddled with a $25 m deficit thanks to Ford government cuts. Town Hall meeting in Oshawa April 15 to organize the community.

U of T library workers demand a fair contract now! Join student casual, part-time, and full-time library workers at the CUPE 1230 Solidarity Rally tomorrow, March 21st from 12-1pm, outside of Robarts Common.

RSVP at the link:
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#Unifor leadership & members employed at Bell are in Ottawa on the day that Bell execs bailed on appearing before MPs on the #CHCP Committee. We’re here to call out #Bell for slashing jobs while paying out record dividends to shareholders. #ShameonBell unifor.org/news/all-news/…

Solidarity with Quebec nurses, demonstrating today for a working life without mandatory overtime. Forcing government to staff up in healthcare, rather than working existing staff into the ground is a key battle for all of us.

This class-action lawsuit alleging negligence during the pandemic highlights what nurses have been saying for years: for-profit nursing homes corporations put profit before care!

ONA nursing homes members #fightlocal to put CARE before profit! #onhealth
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Protest cuts at Lakeridge Health. The province isn't fully funding arbitrated wage settlements post Bill 124. Its war against health care staff and against the patients continues. Please join us at the March 20 rally.

Hospitals are where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. They are not a target.

Hospitals report that the Ministry won't fully fund them for wage increases flowing from post-Bill 124 arbitration awards. The government thus continues its war on salary increases for health care workers. Cuts to services are inevitable. Let's organize stiff resistance.

The exodus of nurses won't end without assurances that they can deliver the care their patients require. BC's nurse to patient ratios is a giant step in this direction and a model the other provinces should follow.

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Unfortunately what was announced yesterday is in no way a national pharmacare programme nor does it sketch out the path to one. theglobeandmail.com/politics/opini…

What's the harm in private, for-profit companies delivering publicly-funded health care?

Look no further than Shoppers Drug Mart, which subjected employees to 'intense pressure' to bill the province for unnecessary care. #onpoli #onhealth

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ONA strongly condemns Doug Ford latest scheme to introduce profit into health care by violating the Voluntary Blood Donations Act, the law that bans donor payments and forbids profiting from the sale of blood and plasma donations.
Read our release: ona.org/news-posts/202…

🙏Jessica Bell
'Everyone should get access to good public health care based on need, not on how much you earn, where you live, the colour of your skin, or how old you are.'

Reminder of the best four minutes ever.
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With Bill 124 gone, health care workers can turn our full focus to turning around the deterioration in the quality and availability of care in Ontario.

Statement by CUPE, SEIU & Unifor: “We are pleased that the Court of Appeals upheld the decision of the Superior Court that Bill 124 is unconstitutional. We urge Doug Ford to let Bill 124 go. '