TORONTO, ON, June 17, 2024 – Registered nurses (RNs) with Labdara Lithuanian Nursing Home have voted overwhelmingly in favour of joining the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).
TORONTO, ON., May 21, 2024 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) welcomes the arbitration decision released today that includes the most significant wage increase for registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals working in the province’s nursing homes in more than 30 years.
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 19, 2024 – Collective bargaining for registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals with the province’s for-profit nursing homes has broken down just three days into five days of scheduled negotiations, with no deal reached, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).
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.
MARKHAM, ON, March 27, 2024 – To mark the start of Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) collective bargaining with 194 participating Ontario for-profit nursing homes, close to 200 nurses and health-care professionals held an early-morning picket outside Extendicare Canada’s corporate headquarters in Markham today.
On Thursday, March 7, we will host two meetings for participating nursing homes members that will give you the opportunity to vote on your demands in preparation for this round of negotiations.
Register for demand-setting meetings for our upcoming contract negotiations.
OAKVILLE, ON., November 21, 2023 – Registered nurses (RNs) working to provide high-quality care to residents of Extendicare Northridge Long-Term Care have voted unanimously to join the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA).
September 7, 2023 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) supports the full implementation of the Ombudsman’s recommendations to ensure that long-term care inspectors are given the proper and in-depth training, tools and PPE to carry out their jobs in helping to protect residents.