Child protection workers urge Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS to heed its own words about demands on child welfare services in the north

NORTH BAY and PARRY SOUND, ON – Representatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are calling on Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS to remember its own past statements about the pressures on child protection services in the north and to stop peddling half-truths and inaccuracies about the reasons it locked out its workers…

Studies back hospital cleaners’ call for increased staffing to prevent hospital infection deaths

  CORNWALL, ON — With provincial funding for Ontario hospital services falling for years, understaffing is getting worse in hospital environmental services, with reports of layoffs and cuts occurring regularly, a survey of front line cleaning staff has found. Concerns are growing among environmental service workers that Ontario hospitals do not have the capacity and…