TORONTO, ON, March 3, 2023 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) says that contract talks between ONA hospital registered nurses and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) have broken down and will now head to arbitration in early May.
Read more
TORONTO, ON., March 2, 2023 – Thousands of Registered Nurses, health-care professionals, supporters and labour allies held a long and loud protest today on Queen Street in Toronto, followed by a march to Queen’s Park to voice their support for a better contract for Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) hospital members.
TORONTO, ON, March 1, 2023 – Today, the elected bargaining team of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) begins mediation with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) in a last-ditch effort to reach a respectful, negotiated collective agreement for Ontario’s 60,000 hospital Registered Nurses and health-care professionals.
TORONTO, ON, February 2, 2023 – Front-line hospital nurses and health-care professionals will hold the first in a series of escalating collective actions today aimed at showing their support for the Ontario Nurses’ Association’s (ONA) hospital bargaining team.
TORONTO, ON, January 30, 2023 – Contract talks between the Ontario Nurses’ Association’s (ONA) 60,000 hospital nurses and health-care professionals and the Ontario Hospital Association have begun, with ONA members determined to reach a new deal that meets their demands.
ONA Communications spoke with Rachel Muir, RN, Chair of ONA’s Hospital Central Negotiating Team about why she applied for the team, what she believes she can bring to the table as Chair, and how the team is feeling heading into bargaining the week of January 30.
There’s no question that Ontario’s struggling health-care system has been wrought with problems these past few years: the worst nursing crisis in decades, forced wage caps, and a global pandemic that turned our health-care workforce on its head. Yet if there is one thing that is crystal clear going into hospital bargaining for our 60,000 members, it is that the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and hospital CEOs must address these problems in the next collective agreement.
In the hospital sector with a few exceptions, your collective agreement has two sections: a central agreement and a local agreement. Similarly, in the nursing home sector there are central and local provisions that are contained in the same agreement; local issues are set out in italics.
