At the 13 minute mark, CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick describes the systemic flaws in long-term care we’ve been pointing out for years—where peoples’ lives are undervalued and devalued, facilities are chronically underfunded and understaffed, and the entire system has been set up to fail. Listen to the interview here.
CUPE Ontario’s Secretary Treasurer, Candace Rennick was on Ottawa at Work with Leslie Roberts to speak about the Long Term Care crisis in Ontario. Click here and scroll to 42:25 to hear the interview.
Candace Rennick, Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE Ontario and a former personal support worker, said front-line workers had also been raising similar issues for years and getting ignored. “Nothing in that report is going to be any surprise for those of us working on the front lines,” Rennick said. “(I guess) it takes the military to get…
CUPE registered practical nurses Pam Parks, Judy Bain, and Maggie Jewell lay out what health care workers need in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis: There are painted rocks, flower bouquets and handmade signs outside our hospitals and long-term-care homes. These are welcome offerings. The thanks to health-care workers inside touch us deeply. It all…
Thousands of health care workers demonstrated outside Ontario hospitals Thursday, protesting the Ford government’s pandemic pay raise. That’s because not everyone is considered eligible for the four dollar per hour hike, something the union says is unfair. Watch the Global News video here.
“Tens of thousands of health care staff who work on the hospital front lines – including those in Hamilton, have been excluded from receiving the pandemic recognition pay announced by the province last month,” reads a release from the Canadian Union of Public Employees. “Since the COVID pandemic began in Ontario, [CUPE] health care sector…
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says there are still “tens of thousands of health-care staff” who have been excluded from the pandemic pay program. Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, tells CTV News the government has created effectively two classes of workers in the province’s hospitals. Click here to…
“We woke up Thursday morning to one of our members who has just died of COVID on the front line, and you want to talk to us about watering down what we consider already weak protections for the front line,” CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick said. “It’s a bit offensive.” Read the full article here.
A CUPE personal support worker has passed away from COVID-19 at the Madonna Care Community in Ottawa. “Despite the claims that there are adequate supplies on the front lines we are hearing directly that that is in fact not the case. People are still being denied access to masks. Not one more health care worker…
“Many of these jobs are paid at a rate that is absolutely not commensurate with the value that they give to our community” said CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn. “We think pandemic pay should not be a temporary thing. This should be a permanent measure where enhanced funding is permanently provided.” Watch the news video here.
