Health Care

Long-term care workers at Sarnia’s Trillium Villa Nursing Home rallied and called on their community for support on Wednesday as part of escalating actions across southwestern Ontario after talks with employers broke down.

TORONTO–Health care workers at eleven long-term care facilities will begin escalating community actions across southwestern Ontario after talks with employers broke off.  &nbsp

After more than a month on the picket line, striking shelter workers bring their struggle to the wider Napanee and Kingston community with a new radio ad.

Come hell or high water, licensed practical nurse Josephine Barron will make it into work to take care of her patients.

Even if it means hopping on a fishing boat or being transported by helicopter.

Barron, the Unit Chair for Buchanan Memorial Hospital (Unifor Local 4600), said because of huge amounts of rainfall in Cape Breton, N.S. beginning Tuesday, November 23, 2021, her usual 20-minute commute to Buchanan Memorial Hospital in Neils Harbour became a 4.5-hour drive from Ingonish as roads were washed out.
 

Unifor Local 8300 members ratified their first collective agreement with Hillel Lodge, a long-term care facility in Ottawa, Ontario.

TORONTO — Unifor welcomes the Fixing Long-Term Care Act, 2021, introduced today by the provincial government, and continues to push for better working conditions for all in the sector.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of workers in a precedent-setting case about the method employers must use to maintain proxy pay equity for their predominantly female workforce.

Unifor proudly celebrates Continuing Care Assistant (CCA) Week, Oct 11-15, 2021, organized by the Health Association of Nova Scotia (HANS) as part of Continuing Care Month.

"The amount of compassion and hard work provided by CCAs should not only be recognized over a week but every single day of the year," said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President. "To all our CCA members, thank you for all you do in protecting our most vulnerable in society. Your resilience and grit during the pandemic should not go unnoticed."

TORONTO — Unifor welcomes the Ontario government’s announcement to provide an additional $270 million this year for long-term care homes to help increase direct care for residents to three hours by the end of the fiscal year.

As the Ontario Legislature opened on October 4, long-term care activists came together to send a clear message to MPPs: No more broken promises. No more substandard care. We demand real action now!