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Ontario Nurses’ Association Elects New First Vice-President

TORONTO, ON, April 11, 2025 – Alan Warrington, RN, has been elected First Vice-President of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).

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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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ONA calls for ceasefire and restored access to aid and health care in Gaza

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is renewing its call for a ceasefire in Gaza and the urgent restoration of access to humanitarian aid and health care.

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Hospital members – Help us set demands for bargaining!

Register for demand-setting meetings for our upcoming contract negotiations.

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Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare Registered Nurses Fight to Save Care Nurses Meet with Top Executives, Demand Change

BRACEBRIDGE, ON – As registered nurses (RNs) at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) rallied and donned stickers reading “RNs: Staff Us, Retain Us,” a delegation of 30 RNs accompanied by Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN, met with top executives at Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare to demand workplace changes.

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One Fertility Burlington Nurses Vote to Join Ontario Nurses’ Association

BURLINGTON, ON – The registered nurses – and registered practical nurses working at One Fertility Burlington have voted overwhelmingly to join the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), the country’s largest nurses’ union.

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North York Family Health Team Employees Vote Overwhelmingly to Join the Ontario Nurses’ Association

NORTH YORK, ON – Fifty nurses, health-care professionals and supporting staff working at the North York Family Health Team have voted overwhelmingly to joining Canada’s largest nurses’ union, the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).

Media Releases News Articles Bargaining Provincial Campaigns

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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Ford’s budget promises cannot be trusted to improve care in the public system, says Ontario Nurses’ Association

TORONTO, ON, March 26, 2024 – The Ford government’s 2024 Ontario budget fails to commit to the province’s public health-care system in a meaningful way and lacks any details on how the health-care funds announced will be used, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).

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Brantford Community Healthcare Registered Nurses Call for an Independent Review of Patient Safety

BRANTFORD, ON, March 18, 2024 – After repeatedly raising extremely serious concerns about patient safety and registered nurse (RN) staffing levels, RNs at Brantford Community Healthcare have called in an Independent Assessment Committee (IAC) to investigate issues in the hospital’s emergency department.

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Election Results: Hospital Provincial Negotiating Team

We congratulate the successful candidates, as well as all the other candidates for their interest and involvement in this election.

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