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2026 Health and Safety Caucus

Registration is now open for our annual health and safety caucuses, held in conjunction with the May Area Coordinators Conferences (ACCs).

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Media Releases News Articles Bargaining Provincial Campaigns

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 welcomes federal funding to improve health care, but calls on Ford to be accountable and invest in public care

TORONTO, ON, February 9, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) welcomes the commitment of the federal government to provide funding in a new health-care agreement for this province, and adds that ONA has no faith that the Ford government will direct the funds to where they are most needed – to invest in the public system, not the for-profit, private corporations.

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Area Registered Nurses Join Muskoka Residents in Fighting Loss of Local Health-Care Services

BRACEBRIDGE, ON, February 7, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) and area registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals joined ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN in vowing to stop the loss of local health-care services in Muskoka.

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Nurses Call in Independent Panel to Review Safety at Winchester District Memorial Hospital’s Family Birthing Unit

WINCHESTER, ON, January 29, 2024 – After repeatedly attempting to resolve serious safety and quality of care concerns in the Family Birthing Unit of Winchester District Memorial Hospital, the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) has taken the rare step of calling in an independent panel of nursing experts to review working conditions and make recommendations.

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Second Expert Nursing Panel Report Underscores Urgent Need to Improve Nurse Staffing and Retention at Kingston Hospital

KINGSTON, ON, January 26, 2024 – For the second time in as many years, an independent expert nursing panel has made dozens of sound recommendations to Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) to improve patient care and working conditions for nurses and health-care professionals.

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Media Statement: Algoma Public Health Cuts Nurses Even as Health Unit Lags Far Behind in Child Immunizations

SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, January 16, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is dumbfounded at the decision of Algoma Public Health to issue layoff notices to registered nurses (RNs) when thousands of area children are behind in their immunizations.

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Home and Community Care Support Services ONA Members Ratify Tentative Agreement

TORONTO, ON, December 18, 2023 – More than 4,300 Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members who work in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) across the province have ratified a tentative agreement with their employer. This agreement – which was reached during three days of intense conciliation – marks just the beginning of recovering the financial ground that our members have lost over the last decade.

Media Releases News Articles Bargaining

Media Statement: New Contract Decision for Victorian Order of Nurses Fails Care Providers and Their Clients

TORONTO, ON. – Approximately 200 Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members employed by the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) have been assigned a new contract in an arbitration decision. The decision amounts to a wage cut, in real dollars, even as Ontario patients, residents and clients suffer due to an historic health worker shortage.

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Nurses, Health-Care Professionals at Hospice Vaughan Vote to Join ONA

VAUGHAN, ON., December 11, 2023 – Registered nurses (RNs), registered practical nurses (RPNs) and personal support workers (PSWs) working to provide high-quality care to those at Hospice Vaughan voted overwhelmingly to join the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).

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Media Statement: NURSING SHORTAGES KEY THEME IN AUDITOR’S REPORT; FORD GOVERNMENT MUST INVEST IN RETAINING AND RECRUITING, NOTES ONTARIO NURSES’ ASSOCIATION

TORONTO, ON, December 6, 2023 – The release of the Auditor’s Report today made clear the devasting impact the province’s nursing shortage is having on Ontarians’ health, especially in northern hospitals, which rely on high-priced nursing agencies rather than retention strategies to fill the many gaps in care, notes the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).

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