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We are 68,000 nurses & health-care professionals, & 18,000 nursing students. Stay in the Fight. And fight like a nurse. General queries: [email protected] #onlab
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialOntario's emergency departments are in deep crisis due to understaffing & chronic underfunding, and Ford's latest “action team” will only make matters worse, says ONA President Erin Ariss, RN.
More: https://ona.org/news/20261008-emergency-department-understaffing/
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@ontarionurses.bsky.socialFord's plans to shift towards health care privatization is costing Ontarians more money and time!
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/how-doug-ford-s-health-plan-costs-taxpayers-billions-and-privatization-is-making-it-fail/article_46cdf5e5-41c3-4585-96b6-bf5927027078.html
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@ontarionurses.bsky.socialIt's National Occupational Therapy month, a time to recognize the important work occupational therapists do in helping Canadians overcome physical, mental and cognitive barriers. Learn more about the importance of this month: https://www.ona.org/news-posts/national-ot-month/
#OTMonth
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialToday is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in Canada.
We urge members, staff and allies to take this opportunity to learn about and reflect on our past and how we can meaningfully participate in reconciliation in Canada.
Learn more: https://ona.org/news/ndtr/
🎨 by Hawlii Pichette
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@ontarionurses.bsky.socialToday is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: a time to recognize the intergenerational harm that residential schools caused to Indigenous families & communities, and to honour those affected by this injustice. More: https://ona.org/news/ndtr/
🎨 by Hawlii Pichette #TruthAndReconcilliation
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialONA Provincial President Erin Ariss isn’t one to miss an opportunity.
Especially when he’s staring her right in the face.
Read the full article: https://onamag.org/fuse/hallway-politics/informing-ford/
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialRNs & NPs, members of ONA, are entering conciliation tomorrow to reach a fair new contract with employer, Guelph Community Health Centre, so they can continue providing primary care services to 1000s of patients in their community. Full release: https://ona.org/news/20260915-guelph-chc-conciliation/
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialLabour Day falls on the first Monday in September. While many Canadians may think of Labour Day as the unofficial end to the summer, it is actually a day of great significance for the labour movement and workers' rights.
Learn more: https://ona.org/news/labour-day/
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialONA is raising serious safety concerns about more than 215 registered nurse (RN) positions cut across Ontario hospitals in the past two months alone.
See the full release: https://ona.org/news/20260903-hospital-rn-cuts/
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(11/11) The Charter challenge will proceed to a court hearing, which will soon be scheduled, where ONA will present evidence supporting its application. Affidavits from Ariss, front-line ONA members and expert witnesses will be filed as evidence.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(10/11) “As Ontario faces unprecedented challenges, nurses and health-care professionals are fighting to restore our constitutional rights and our collective bargaining power.”
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(9/11) Nurses and health-care professionals in most of Canada have some ability to take job action, including strike action, while maintaining essential patient care.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(8/11) An arbitration decision released earlier this month largely maintained the status quo for more than 4,000 nurses and health-care professionals who care for vulnerable residents in for-profit nursing homes.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(7/11) Rather than meaningfully negotiate a settlement, nursing homes CEOs relied on an arbitrator to decide the outcome. "When employers rely on arbitrators to impose contracts, that is not meaningful collective bargaining. It is exactly why this system needs to change," says Ariss.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(6/11) "That hurts our members, hurts patients and hurts our public health-care system,” said Erin Ariss, RN, ONA Provincial President. The failures of HLDAA were on full display during provincial bargaining between ONA and 210 for-profit nursing homes corporations earlier this year.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(5/11) “HLDAA has created a system where employers can sidestep meaningful collective bargaining, leaving nurses and health-care professionals without the power to negotiate improvements to the working conditions they face every day....
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(4/11) The Notice of Application names the Attorney General of Ontario, the Minister of Labour, the Minister of Health and the Minister of Long-Term Care as respondents.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(3/11) Enacted before the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms existed, HLDAA imposes a ban on job action for more than 90 per cent of Ontario's health-care workers, the vast majority of whom are women.
@ontarionurses.bsky.social(2/11) ONA moved its Charter challenge forward by filing a Notice of Application[KR1.1][TB1.2] to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice challenging the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act (HLDAA), a 1965 law that imposes one of the most restrictive labour relations regimes in the world.
@ontarionurses.bsky.socialONA is taking a major step to challenge legislation that denies nurses and health-care professionals working in hospitals & long-term care meaningful collective bargaining rights and the ability to strike. #onpoli #onlab #fightlocal
More: https://ona.org/news/20260901-hldaa-notice-of-application/
