That was the message from three unions as they urged Premier Doug Ford to provide better incentives for health-care workers as
The Ontario Nurses’ Association, Canadian Union of Public Employees and SEIU Healthcare unions proposed several steps the Ford government could take to turn the corner on the, including increased wages amid the surge in inflation, and the repeal of Bill 124 that has limited most public sector wage increases to one per cent annually since 2019.
About 10,000 health-care workers have left the field in the last couple of years and are desperately needed back in their jobs, said Michael Hurley of CUPE. The government has also added $12.4 million in mental health and addictions supports for health-care workers, hired 10,500 health-care workers, helped 14,000 personal support worker students pay for their college training programs, boosted pay for personal support workers, and is givingNurses would prefer a fair pay raise that reflects their hard work and importance to the health-care system, said Cathryn Hoy, president of the Ontario Nurses’ Association and a registered nurse.
Why are we giving the criminal unions a platform? They don’t speak for me.
First he needs to rehire every nurse that was fired(hopefully many have found other career paths) and vett everyone of the ones that weren't. Medical, criminal check and drug test all. Then rebuild LTC homes with caring staff and then discussions can start on incentives. Imo 🤷🏻♀️
One thing I’ve noticed to be consistent in the relatively few times I’ve been to a hospital (ER or visiting a patient) is that nurses spend much of their time chatting and gossiping, occasionally (reluctantly) doing actual work, while the doctors hustle. Why pay lazy people more?
Find the $4.4 billion Covid relief funds and use that.
We pay teachers way too much, and nurses not enough. There's a simple solution. The left has exposed themselves as being completely inept with economics (see their 'roaring twenties' covid predictions), but public tax money is not endless, we need public sector reform & balance.
Being verworked is the issue - paying them more won't solve that problem. Don't politicize this.
20 ERs. Most in the GTA. With 364 other ERs available. During the peak of holiday season. But go on.
Since when do unions dictate government policy. They should stick to their collective bargaining.
First of all ....it's taxpayer money...not 'his' money.... belongs in this mainstream media club...
This is not the time for unions to bully the tax payers
Not Trillium health partners, there union pres. Loves the double overtime, not time and half double but triple pay. Cupe. Loves all the overtime they get. Seems like they be sleeping with the devil and they already made deals on the side.
all going to plan
If the problem is wages, then the nurses need to be paid market rate. If it's benefits, working conditions or something else those problems need to be addressed.
Incentives come in many forms
fordnation how about forcing hospitals to drop their mandate so people who were fired can go back? I know it may seem unethical to force them but oh well that’s the way the governments & hospitals roll these day so just a bit of reap what you sow Karma
What do expect from a high school dropout.
dmrider Where's Doug? Never seen a premier so camera shy onpoli
Remember when you advocated for removing nurses who refused experimental medication? Feel stupid yet Red Star?
Scrap that stupid waste of money highway plan and fix our healthcare problems. And don’t tell me you don’t have the money.
davidpugliese Maybe the unions should push to rehire proven professionals who have been fired because they won't vaccinate. Vax doesn't prevent transmission of covid anyway. See how it's going in Australia. Extremely high vax rates, and extremely high infection rates.
Nurses should've stood up for their colleagues, who got thrown to the curb over the vaccine, even though they had been working beside them up until then.
Of course they do... Top 7-8% of wage earners in Canada, want more because they believe they are worth more than 93% of the population!
He can find the 4.4B he lost FordfailedOntario FordFailedHealthcare
One way to minimize the issue is to invest in robotics and replace part of the repetitive parts of the nurses job by technology. As a plus; technology won't be patronized by Unions.
All about the money. Wrong fight to pick.
He should just blame Justin like Horgan in BC does. Politicians these days are never accountable and always point the fingers at someone else.
I suspect this current attitude toward health care is a bald manipulation by provincial governments to pressure the feds to increase the grants to provinces. At least the Quebec premier has the honesty to say what they are doing.
The UNION job description limitations is a bigger problem than Doug Ford. Get the unions the hell out of the healthcare system, … NOW!
Did Doug learn to turn water into wine? We have no more money.
Repeal bill 124. These men and women are the backbone of the health care system. When Dad was in the hospital for weeks, I rarely saw a doctor. It was his nurses that took care of him and gave me updates and info. The work they do is amazing and we'd be lost without them. Pay up
My guess is more deeming of disabled injured workers to balance fordnation budget planning. Union should know that it's too late when a loved one comes home & never having a public witness stand moment. Science say that pain & suffering gets better at 65, so WSIB banks billions?
Well that means spending money which he is loathe to do…
Duh
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