“From heroes to nothing”: Regency Park Long-Term Care issues layoff notices to seven workers

WINDSOR, ON – UniversalCare has sent layoff notices to seven staff at the Regency Park Long-Term Care Home, one of Windsor’s only long-term care homes in the downtown core. As long-term care (LTC) homes across Ontario struggle with staffing shortages, UniversalCare has cited ‘budget issues’ as their reasoning for laying off staff. The LTC workers…

CUPE Ontario Labour Day statement

This Labour Day, at the end of our “hot labour summer,” we celebrate the growing worker power that is flexing its muscle and making real changes in ways we haven’t seen in a generation. In truth, this has been a hot labour year. In the last 12 months, CUPE Ontario members and other trade unions…

Sudbury requires 105 extra hospital beds and 1,010 additional staff to meet demand over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis

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. Sudbury, 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…

North Bay requires 90 extra hospital beds and 490 additional staff to meet demand over next four years, says new report on province’s hospital crisis

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. North Bay, ON – The crisis in the province’s hospital sector will only worsen over the next four years, unless Ontario makes significant investments to improve…