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International Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Awareness Day 2026

February 28 is International Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Awareness Day, which is dedicated to RSI education and prevention.

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Media Statement: Nurses and health-care professionals picket to protest profits in nursing homes

Toronto, ON, April 30, 2024 – Earlier this morning, dozens of nurses and health-care professionals – members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) – picketed outside the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management to urge Extendicare CEO Dr. Michael Guerriere to put resident care over profits. Guerriere was keynote speaker at a breakfast meeting where his topic was, “Thinking Differently: Recreating a Health System We Are Proud Of.”

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Long-Term Care Nurses and Health Professionals Picket Across Ontario, Calling for Care Over Profit

TORONTO, ON, April 12, 2024 – Hundreds of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members held 37 pickets at corporate, for-profit long-term care homes in communities across Ontario today. Nurses and health-care professionals are calling out for-profit nursing home corporations, demanding that they stop compromising resident care while pocketing billion-dollar revenues.

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Ontario Nurses’ Association Pickets at Extendicare Canada to Launch Nursing Homes Bargaining Campaign Calling for Care, Not Profit

MARKHAM, ON, March 27, 2024 – To mark the start of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) collective bargaining with 194 participating Ontario for-profit nursing homes, close to 200 nurses and health-care professionals held an early-morning picket outside Extendicare Canada’s corporate headquarters in Markham today.

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Media Statement: Ontario Nurses’ Association Celebrates News that Ford Government will Repeal Bill 124

The Ontario Nurses’ Association’s Provincial President Erin Ariss and its 68,000 nurses and health-care professional members are celebrating the news that the Ford government will repeal Bill 124.

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Ontario Nurses’ Association celebrates second Bill 124 legal victory as Ford government loses its appeal of earlier decision

TORONTO, ON., February 12, 2024 – Ontario’s front-line registered nurses and health-care professionals are celebrating another decision by the courts, a decision released that is clear: Bill 124, wage-suppression legislation passed by the Ford government in 2019, is unconstitutional.

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Ontario Nurses’ Association Reaches Tentative Deal with Home and Community Care and Support Services at conciliation

TORONTO, ON., November 17, 2023 – More than 4,300 Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members who work in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) across the province have reached a tentative agreement pending ratification, during conciliation with their employer.

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Home and Community Care and Support Services ONA members vow to take action if conciliation fails

TORONTO, ON., November 15, 2023 – More than 4,300 Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members who work in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) across the province are in conciliation this week with Ontario Health. If conciliation fails to meet their bargaining demands for fair wages and safe staffing, they expect to take escalating actions to fight for better health care in the sector.

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“Nurses Talk Truth” in New Campaign Calling Out Ford Government

TORONTO, ON., October 30, 2023 – Front-line nurses and health-care professionals are calling foul on the Ford Conservative government’s disastrous health-care policies in a new advertising campaign, launched by the Ontario Nurses’ Association today.

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MEDIA ADVISORY: Thunder Bay health care workers are rallying to save public healthcare and stop the privatization of hospital services

THUNDER BAY, ON, October 25, 2023 – Healthcare workers including nurses, personal support workers, clinical staff, and social workers at St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay are taking action to oppose the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics.

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Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) Bargaining: Setting up the context and next steps

Get some background on this round of HCCSS bargaining and find out what happens next.

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