Register for the demand-setting meeting for our upcoming contract negotiations.

On Wednesday, November 6, we will host two webinars for hospital members where you can vote on your bargaining demands.

SUDBURY, ON, June 25, 2024 – Almost six weeks after a first round of arbitration hearings and a large rally calling for respect for health-care professionals at Health Sciences North (HSN), the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) bargaining team representing the workers will back in arbitration this evening. 

PORT HOPE, LINDSAY, HALIBURTON, ON, June 13, 2024 – Fifty public health nurses and registered practical nurses are calling for their employer to step up with a respectful new collective agreement as the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) and Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit head to conciliation tomorrow.

This anonymous survey is an opportunity for you to tell us about your bargaining priorities.

TORONTO, ON., May 21, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) welcomes the arbitration decision released today that includes the most significant wage increase for registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals working in the province’s nursing homes in more than 30 years.

The cut-off date for receipt of nominations for the Victorian Order of Nurses Provincial Negotiating Team (VONPNT) has passed. Learn more.

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.”

If you are interested in allowing your name to stand, a scanned copy of your completed and signed Nomination Form, a MS Word copy of your Résumé Form and your photograph must be submitted via email to chiefelectoralofficer@ona.org by 4 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, May 16, 2024.

TORONTO, ON, April 19, 2024 – Collective bargaining for registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals with the province’s for-profit nursing homes has broken down just three days into five days of scheduled negotiations, with no deal reached, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).