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MEDIA ADVISORY: “We were there for patients in the pandemic,” say Clinton/Stratford/Seaforth hospital workers mobilizing next week to fight wage cuts and concessions

30 July 2021
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Event Information

Begins: 2 Aug 2021 @ 11:30 AM
Location: Clinton, ON

Begins: 3 Aug 2021 @ 11:30 AM
Location: Stratford, ON

Begins: 5 Aug 2021 @ 11:30 AM
Location: Seaforth, ON

STRATFORD, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance staff are joining thousands of front-line hospital workers across Ontario in speaking out about their dissatisfaction with how their hospital employers and Doug Ford’s provincial government are treating them. Rallies are planned in Clinton, Stratford and Seaforth on Monday August 2, Tuesday August 3, and Thursday August 5, respectively.

Registered practical nurses, personal support workers, environmental cleaners, and other hospital workers will take part in socially distanced rallies.

Staff at the Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance are among nearly 70,000 hospital workers across Ontario currently negotiating a new provincial contract. But after working the past 18 months at a hectic pace in a pandemic, these workers feel devalued by both the province and their hospital employers.

They deserve a fair contract say their unions, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and SEIU Healthcare but, they are instead, being “rewarded” by a wage cut under a provincial policy (Bill 124) that restricts them to a wage increase less than 1/3 of the rate of inflation. Bill 124 also impacts hospital workers’ ability to negotiate much-needed increases to mental health supports like psychotherapy and post-traumatic stress counselling.

At next week’s rallies, hospital workers will ask for respect and better pandemic protections – safety measures, which will also benefit patients. In addition to getting Bill 124 repealed, they want the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) the umbrella group for hospital employers, to take several concessions, including language around seniority and retirement packages, off the table.

Earlier this week, hospital workers rallied at hospitals throughout Ontario’s northwest.  Many similar rally actions are scheduled across the province through the end of August.

CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) and SEIU Healthcare began bargaining with the OHA last month and will return to the table in early September.

CUPE hospital workers’ northwest Ontario rallies are as follows:

Clinton

  • Monday, August 2 – 11:30 a.m.
  • Huron-Perth Healthcare, 98 Shipley Street, Clinton

Stratford

  • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 – 11:30 a.m.
  • Huron-Perth Healthcare, 46 General Hospital Drive, Stratford

Seaforth

  • Thursday, August 5, 2021 – 11:30 a.m.
  • Huron-Perth Healthcare, 24 Centennial Drive, Seaforth

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For more information, please contact:

Stella Yeadon, CUPE Communications, 416-559-9300, syeadon@cupe.ca

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