More than 700 positions cut since January 2025, leaving patients with less care A tidal wave of employer cutbacks has wiped out more than 700 front-line nurse and health-care worker positions since January 2025, leaving patients, residents and clients with less care and longer waits for treatment. Hospitals and health-care […]
The Ford government’s 2025 budget is a complete flatline for nurses, health-care professionals and Ontario’s public health-care system, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA). Instead, the budget continues to cut revenue needed by the provincial coffers, funnel scant health-care dollars to private corporations and for-profit providers while starving the public system of much-needed […]
More than 75 public health nurses at the Windsor Essex County Health Unit, members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), are heading to conciliation seeking fair wages and hours of work, after the employer failed to negotiate a new collective agreement. “Windsor Essex public health nurses have among the lowest public health […]
The Ford government’s 2024 Ontario budget fails to commit to the province’s public health-care system in a meaningful way and lacks any details on how the health-care funds announced will be used, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA). “ONA was crystal clear in our pre-budget submission about what is needed […]