Toronto, ON, April 30, 2024 – Earlier this morning, dozens of nurses and health-care professionals – members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) – picketed outside the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management to urge Extendicare CEO Dr. Michael Guerriere to put resident care over profits. Guerriere was keynote speaker at a breakfast meeting where his topic was, “Thinking Differently: Recreating a Health System We Are Proud Of.”

TORONTO, ON, April 12, 2024 – Hundreds of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members held 37 pickets at corporate, for-profit long-term care homes in communities across Ontario today. Nurses and health-care professionals are calling out for-profit nursing home corporations, demanding that they stop compromising resident care while pocketing billion-dollar revenues.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association’s Provincial President Erin Ariss and its 68,000 nurses and health-care professional members are celebrating the news that the Ford government will repeal Bill 124.

TORONTO, ON., February 12, 2024 – Ontario’s front-line registered nurses and health-care professionals are celebrating another decision by the courts, a decision released that is clear: Bill 124, wage-suppression legislation passed by the Ford government in 2019, is unconstitutional.

TORONTO, ON., November 17, 2023 – More than 4,300 Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members who work in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) across the province have reached a tentative agreement pending ratification, during conciliation with their employer.

TORONTO, ON., November 15, 2023 – More than 4,300 Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) members who work in Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) across the province are in conciliation this week with Ontario Health. If conciliation fails to meet their bargaining demands for fair wages and safe staffing, they expect to take escalating actions to fight for better health care in the sector.

TORONTO, ON., October 30, 2023 – Front-line nurses and health-care professionals are calling foul on the Ford Conservative government’s disastrous health-care policies in a new advertising campaign, launched by the Ontario Nurses’ Association today.

THUNDER BAY, ON, October 25, 2023 – Healthcare workers including nurses, personal support workers, clinical staff, and social workers at St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay are taking action to oppose the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics.

Get some background on this round of HCCSS bargaining and find out what happens next.

TORONTO, ON – Workers from hospitals across Toronto held a series of rallies today outside St. Joseph’s Health Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, and Providence Healthcare to speak out against the Ford government’s plan to privatize hospital services. Healthcare workers from the three sites, which are operated by Unity Health Toronto, included nurses, personal support workers, laboratory technologists, health care aides, cleaners, clerical staff, and many more.