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Ontario Hospital Nurses Begin Contract Talks Determined to Achieve Better Pay, Better Staffing and Better Patient Care

TORONTO, ON, January 30, 2023 – Contract talks between the Ontario Nurses’ Association’s (ONA) 60,000 hospital nurses and health-care professionals and the Ontario Hospital Association have begun, with ONA members determined to reach a new deal that meets their demands.

Bargaining 101: Spilling the Tea about Hospital Bargaining “We are ready for the proverbial fight”

ONA Communications spoke with Rachel Muir, RN, Chair of ONA’s Hospital Central Negotiating Team about why she applied for the team, what she believes she can bring to the table as Chair, and how the team is feeling heading into bargaining the week of January 30.

Bargaining 101: Myriad of problems must be addressed at the bargaining table, says Chief Negotiator

There’s no question that Ontario’s struggling health-care system has been wrought with problems these past few years: the worst nursing crisis in decades, forced wage caps, and a global pandemic that turned our health-care workforce on its head. Yet if there is one thing that is crystal clear going into hospital bargaining for our 60,000 members, it is that the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and hospital CEOs must address these problems in the next collective agreement.

Bargaining 101: Central and Local Bargaining – What are the differences?

In the hospital sector with a few exceptions, your collective agreement has two sections: a central agreement and a local agreement. Similarly, in the nursing home sector there are central and local provisions that are contained in the same agreement; local issues are set out in italics.

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Ford’s plan to expand private clinics in Ontario will cost patients dearly, risk lives and significantly worsen staffing shortages, healthcare unions say

Toronto, ON, January 16, 2023 – Five major Ontario healthcare unions are calling on the Ford government to not move forward with its plan to siphon provincial funding from public hospital care and hand it to private, for-profit surgical clinics, a risky venture that will cost Ontarians dearly and damage access to public care.

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Ontario’s nurses outraged that Premier Ford is appealing court decision ruling Bill 124 unconstitutional

TORONTO, ON., December 29, 2022 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is expressing outrage that Premier Ford is appealing the Ontario Superior Court’s decision to strike down his wage-cap law, Bill 124, on the grounds that it violates the right to free collective bargaining enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Media Statement: Changes to Hamilton Health Sciences operating room staffing

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) stands by its statements regarding the changes to Hamilton Health Sciences operating room staffing.

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Independent Expert Nursing Panel agrees with ONA that more could be done to retain, recruit RNs to Kingston Health Sciences Centre

December 8, 2022, KINGSTON, ON – An independent panel of nursing experts has made 64 recommendations to improve patient care in the Mental Health and Addiction Care Program (MHAP) at Kingston General Hospital, many of which Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members have been raising for several years.

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Don’t fix what isn’t broken: Nurses, communities, labour call for safe surgical care at Hamilton Health Sciences

HAMILTON, ON, December 7, 2022 – Leaders and members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) rallied alongside patients, community members and labour leaders today to call for Hamilton Health Sciences to staff up to start to clear surgical backlogs, and to provide an easy way for supporters to ramp up the pressure to save safe surgical nursing care.

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Health Minister Must Stop Denying Nurses are Quitting Amidst Staffing Crisis, says ONA

TORONTO, ON, December 1, 2022 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) says Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is very wrong when she denies many nurses in Ontario are leaving their jobs and the nursing profession amidst a staffing crisis.

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