From Advocacy To Action

OCHU/CUPE, SEIU Healthcare and Unifor joined by all opposition leaders to say the government must address workers’ concerns to protect quality patient care.

“Allowing people access to quality public healthcare means investing in hardworking healthcare workers can so they can take care of patients and their families. That’s what this rally to save our hospitals is about. But as the data repeatedly shows, Doug Ford continues to fail patients as Ontario’s hospitals go from bad to worse. He’s abandoned patients in need, frontline staff, and the cherished Canadian guarantee that families won’t need to use a credit card to access health services. By rejecting the solutions healthcare workers are bringing to the bargaining table, the Ontario Hospital Association is complicit in deteriorating public care so Doug Ford’s political donors can swoop in to make huge profits.” – Sharleen Stewart, President, SEIU Healthcare.

Frontline workers at the Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities voted in favour of a strike due to management’s refusal to negotiate a fair contract with high wages – some staff were asking management to access their work’s foodbank! Instead, management refused to bargain fairly and rewarded themselves with raises. Thanks to action at their workplace, members pressured a return to the bargaining table and avoided a strike.