TORONTO, ON – Families, personal support workers and long-term care advocates join NDP Health Critic France Gélinas to call on all parties to support Bill 33 (Time to Care Act) that would legislate minimum care standards in long-term care.
“Seniors are suffering. They need us to act now,” says Gélinas. “We hope the Premier and all MPPs will stand up for vulnerable seniors and support Bill 33.”
“Currently the only legal guarantees long-term care residents have in Ontario, is that there will be a nurse on call in the home 24 hours-a-day, and that they will get two baths a week,” says Candace Rennick, Secretary Treasurer of CUPE Ontario and former long-term care worker. “This needs to change.”
When: Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Queen’s Park Media Studio
Guests: Tom Carrothers, Chair, Advocacy Committee of Family Councils
Candace Rennick, Secretary-Treasurer, CUPE Ontario
Andrea Legault, Personal Support Worker, Fairhaven Homes for the Aged, Peterborough
Second Reading of Time to Care – Bill 33
When: Thursday, November 2, 2017
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Queen’s Park, Legislative Chamber
Note: Personal Support Workers and families will be in the gallery
CUPE is Ontario’s community union, with more than 260,000 members providing quality public services we all rely on, in every part of the province, every day. CUPE Ontario members are proud to work in social services, health care, municipalities, school boards, universities and airlines.
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For more information, contact:
Sarah Jordison, CUPE Communications, 416-578-5638
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