WINDSOR, ON., October 25, 2024 – About 84 registered nurses and registered practical nurses (RPNs) at the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, represented by the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), have reached a new collective agreement with their employer.

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TORONTO, ON., October 22, 2024 – Front-line nurses and health-care professionals from across the province are bluntly speaking out in a new series of advertisements about the grim realities of working in Ontario’s underfunded and understaffed public health-care system. They are warning the public that Premier Doug Ford’s dangerous plot to continue privatizing health care will only make things worse.

Sarnia, ON., October 21, 2024 – More than 40 registered nurses at Lambton Public Health – members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) – head to conciliation this week to demand a new contract that values their immeasurable contributions to their community.

Toronto, ON – Health-care workers at SickKids Hospital in Toronto are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff.

STRATFORD, ON., September 27, 2024 – Registered nurses working to provide high-quality care to those at Hillside Manor Long-Term Care Home voted unanimously to join the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) recently.

WINDSOR, ON., September 17, 2024 – More than 75 public health nurses at the Windsor Essex County Health Unit, members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), are heading to conciliation seeking fair wages and hours of work, after the employer failed to negotiate a new collective agreement.

TORONTO – Staff at SickKids Hospital organized a demonstration today, calling on the employer to join the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). The call comes after workers became aware that their current pension will leave them retiring in poverty because the employer failed to contribute to the plan for decades.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is condemning the announcement by the Ford government earlier this week that they are expanding private clinics to provide gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures.

Premier Ford’s decision to close certain life-saving supervised drug consumption facilities will cost lives and hurt communities. It will also lead to increasing the burden on already stretched Emergency Medical Services and on our ERs and hospitals.