CUPE Members working in Home and Community Care Support Services to protest at Ontario Treasury Board to demand a fair deal at the bargaining table!

Health Care, Home Care, Solidarity, Uncategorized

TORONTO – On Wednesday morning, a delegation representing 1,600 CUPE members working in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) were offered an insulting wage increase at the bargaining table by the Ontario Treasury Board and the Ford Government. Over thirty members working in HCCSS travelled from across Ontario to bargain a fair wage reopener…

CUPE workers rally to support staff at Windsor’s Regency Park Long-Term Care Home after staff receive layoff notices

Health Care, Home Care, Solidarity

Windsor, ON – On Friday, CUPE workers from across the province will rally at the Regency Park Long-Term Care home in solidarity with seven long-term care staff who received layoff notices from the for-profit home operated by Universal Care. The seven staff include two dietary aides, three personal support workers, one registered nurse, and one…

Kingston requires 172 extra hospital beds and 1,388 additional staff to meet demand over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis

Health and Safety, Health Care, Home Care

A new analysis warns of a deeper crisis if the Ford government sticks to its woefully insufficient plan and does not invest in improving hospital staffing and capacity levels Kingston, ON – The crisis in the province’s hospital sector will only worsen over the next four years, unless Ontario makes significant investments to improve staffing…

6,000 new PSWs, “tip of what’s needed, gravity of shortage requires Ontario double number to tackle long-term care staffing crisis,” say health care unions

Health Care, Home Care

TORONTO, ON – Long-term care staffing in Ontario remains far below pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. The gravity of the staffing shortage requires a substantive and comprehensive recruitment, training and retention workforce strategy, say health care unions representing approximately 70,000 personal support workers (PSWs). Today’s announcement is a step in the right direction from what was announced…

Bloodied, broken and burned out: 88% of long-term care staff experience violence

Home Care, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON –Two new reports are being released concurrently that expose the high level of violence, abuse and harassment against staff employed in Ontario’s long-term care homes. An in-depth, peer-reviewed investigative study on violence against staff in Ontario long-term care homes has just been published. The study, titled “Breaking Point: Violence Against Long-term Care Staff,”…