BARRIE, ON, December 4, 2025 – Increasingly concerned about challenges to being able to provide a high quality of care and risks to their professional licenses due to working conditions, 37 registered nurses (RNs) and registered practical nurses (RPNs) providing care at Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens have voted to join the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).

“These dedicated and highly skilled nurses have voted overwhelmingly to join Canada’s largest nurses’ union,” says ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN. “We are a powerful movement of nurses and health-care professionals committed to fighting for each other and those we care for. ONA confronts governments, administrations and other policymakers head on to fight for high-quality public health care.”

As part of ONA, Grove Park nurses 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, Grove Park nurses are struggling to keep up with heavy workloads that make providing quality care a challenge, uncompetitive wages and both an increase in responsibilities and increased use of agency nurses. We welcome Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens’ nurses to our union 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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