PETERBOROUGH, ON — Following tragic stories coming from several Ontario long-term care homes this month, there’s a renewed scrutiny on resident care quality and safety. There is no doubt say Peterborough area personal support workers, registered practical nurses and others working on the front lines in long-term, along with residents’ families, that the crisis in…
SUDBURY, ON — Health Sciences North (HSN) is rationalizing “an unpopular decision” to export the jobs of 40 local hospital laundry workers out of Sudbury by “suggesting it is cheaper” to ship its dirty linen to southern Ontario for cleaning, says Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) president Michael Hurley. “Even if we accept the…
HAMILTON, ON — Hamilton hospitals are having difficulty coping with a surge in patients, “a sadly predictable outcome of 8 years of provincial Liberal (real) budget cuts to our hospitals,” says Dave Murphy, president of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 7800, which represents over 4,000 staff at Hamilton Health Science Centre. “In Ontario, we…
Laid off hospital laundry workers will ask at Wednesday 4 p.m. Sudbury rally SUDBURY, ON — With Sudbury’s unemployment rate high, laid off hospital laundry workers are asking Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault “why his government is laying them off and moving their jobs to Hamilton” at a rally Wednesday November 2, 2016 at 4 p.m.…
Kingston, ON — 1,000 hospital staff from across Ontario will rally on Thursday, October 27, 2016 at Kingston General Hospital (KGH) calling for an end to Ontario’s underfunding of hospital care. Ontario has fallen far behind other provinces on hospital spending since the Liberals were elected provincially in 2003. The province has been cutting hospital…
SUDBURY, ON — With stubbornly high unemployment, Sudbury can’t afford any more job loss, say laid off Sudbury Hospital Services laundry workers. Following a brief meeting with Sudbury MPP Glenn Thibeault at a downtown coffee shop last weekend, the hospital laundry staff renewed their appeal for him to intervene and keep jobs local. They will…
WOODSTOCK, Ont. – As mediation talks between Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 1146, representing 33 public health workers and Oxford County begin on Tuesday, the union is urging management to return to the bargaining table with the full intention of bargaining and avoiding a service disruption that could start as early as Friday, October…
SUDBURY, ON — With increasing scrutiny on the outcome of shared hospital services, questions are being raised about the “integrity of the process” used in awarding the hospital laundry contract to an out-of-Sudbury provider. Aside from what Health Sciences North (HSN) has publicly said about the new contract, there is “very little disclosure about the ‘request…
SUDBURY, ON — Sudbury laundry workers who received layoff notices last week and local jobs, “are collateral damage” of the Ontario Liberals’ continuing plan to underfund hospitals, says Michael Hurley the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). Hurley will be among others from the community out to support the laundry workers…
Dear Minister, As you are aware, Ontario paramedics are among the best trained, if not the best trained emergency first responders in the country. Each day paramedics across our province save many lives. It is highly unfortunate that a recent segment of CTV-W5 leaves viewers with a different impression, specifically that calling 911 is akin…
