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Dear CUPE Ontario long-term care sector member:
We want to thank you for the valuable and compassionate work you do each day and throughout the year supporting long-term care residents across Ontario.
May 6 – 12, 2013 is National Nursing, Home/Long-Term Care week and we want to encourage you and your co-workers to join us in recognizing and celebrating the important contribution you all make to our health care system.
CUPE Ontario is extremely proud of our members working in long-term care. Your leadership advocating for increased care levels and quality care for residents is unparalleled. Without you – front-line workers – there would be no “care” in our long-term care homes.
We are also proud that despite the many challenges you face in workplaces where there are never enough hands to provide the daily care residents require – that you persevere to do your outmost best for residents. Every day, you and your colleagues ensure the people under your care have the support they need and that, their families have come to depend on. Your skills and professionalism are matched only by the empathy, compassion and commitment to quality care that you bring to residents every day.
Never before has your advocacy for a legislated care standard for residents and increased staffing, been as important. The recent tragic homicide of a nursing home resident and attacks on several others, have highlighted the link between adequate staffing levels and safety. Affected families are speaking out and are joining our campaign for increased care and staffing levels.
This is why, with your support, not only will we continue to work with families and others in the community advocating for increased staffing and care, over the next few months we will be stepping up our efforts to demand that the provincial government enact a daily care standard for residents under legislation. Our work will continue until a minimum standard of care exists in Ontario. Across Ontario LTC residents under your care and their families deserve nothing less.
Once again, during National Nursing, Home/Long-Term Care week and every week year-round, we thank you on behalf of the 240,000 CUPE members in Ontario for all of your great work.
Sincerely,
Fred Hahn Kelly O’Sullivan
President CUPE Ontario Chair of CUPE Ontario Health Care Worker Coordinating Committee
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