Patient care will worsen in Durham Region hospitals unless Ford government reverses course on staffing and capacity issues, says new report on province’s hospital crisis

Health Care, OCHU

Durham Region hospitals must increase staffing and capacity by 22 per cent each to meet patient needs, in sharp contrast to the government’s insufficient plan: OCHU/CUPE Oshawa, 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 levels and capacity,…

Arbitrator awards 45,000 Ontario hospital workers 6.25% wage increase; registered practical nurses to get additional incentive

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

TORONTO, ON – On Tuesday, Arbitrator Kaplan’s Bill 124 reopener award recognized the extent to which Doug Ford’s Bill 124 unconstitutionally suppressed union member wages — particularly given the combined effects of the pandemic, the healthcare worker recruitment and retention crisis and inflation — and determined that these factors must be reflected in compensation increases…

Hospital staff rally against Ford’s privatization plan in Hamilton, call on government to invest in public health care.

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

HAMILTON, ON – A large group of hospital staff including nurses, personal support workers and lab technologists rallied today at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton against the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics. In response to Bill 60, the recently passed legislation that farms out surgeries and diagnostic procedures…