BARRIE, ON, November 21, 2025 – Twenty registered nurses (RNs) providing care at the Mill Creek Care Centre have voted to join the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).
“These dedicated and highly skilled RNs are joining Canada’s largest nurses’ union, a powerful movement of nurses and health-care professionals committed to fighting for each other and those we care for,” says ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN. “We confront governments, administrations and other policymakers head on to fight for high-quality public health care.”
As part of ONA, the RNs join 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals, using their collective voices to improve working conditions, fight attacks on the publicly funded and delivered health-care system and improve patient care.
“Currently these RNs are struggling with heavy workloads that make providing quality care a challenge, wages that have actually been reduced, the failure of their employer to adhere to policies and a revolving door of management,” says Ariss.
“We welcome Mill Creek Care Centre RNs and look forward to strengthening our collective fight for better.”
ONA is the union representing 68,000 registered nurses and health-care professionals, as well as 18,000 nursing student affiliates, providing care in hospitals, long-term care facilities, public health, the community, clinics and industry.
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