OTTAWA, ON – The union representing about 10,000 hospital and long-term care staff in Ottawa vowed to fight Mayor Sutcliffe’s plan to create ‘bubble zones’ that would prevent health care workers from exercising their charter rights and organizing demonstrations outside their workplaces. “We have a constitutional right to protest, and it must not be taken…
Across Ontario, hospitals spent $9.2 billion on staffing agencies between 2013-14 and 2022-23 Picton, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario…
Across Ontario, hospitals spent $9.2 billion on staffing agencies between 2013-14 and 2022-23 Kingston, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario…
Private staffing agencies drained $9.2 billion from public hospitals over 10-year period Belleville, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals…
Peterborough, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies shows a co-relation between the…
Private staffing agencies drained $9.2 billion from public hospitals over 10-year period. Kitchener, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals…
Private staffing agencies drained $9.2 billion from public hospitals over 10-year period London, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals…
Private agency costs rose by 23 per cent in the Hamilton-Niagara region from 2013-14 to 2022-23 Niagara Falls, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report…
Toronto, ON – With the strike at Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) now in it’s third week, Deaf, Deafblind, and hard of hearing Greater Toronto Area residents are seeing critical services impacted and denied. The 206 members of CUPE 2073 who work at CHS as Sign language interpreters, employment consultants, Deafblind intervenors, and in other frontline…
The CCPA report is the first investigation into Ontario hospital spending on private agency staff relative to employed staff TORONTO – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The…
