Ontario nurses and health-care professionals will be picking up the picket signs across the province this week in an attempt to bring awareness to their efforts to get a fair deal in their ongoing contract negotiation
Contract talks between the Ontario Nurses’ Association’s 60,000 hospital nurses and health-care professionals and the Ontario Hospital Association started at the end of January.
ONA members say they are determined to reach a new deal that meets their demands, which includes “better staffing, better wages and better care.”
ONA members and supporters are set to take part in “all-out picket actions” outside hospitals and Progressive Conservative MPPs’ offices across the province on Thursday, Feb. 23, including outside of Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie beginning at 11 a.m.
According to information on the ONA website, these pickets are meant to show members' unified voice and commitment to achieving a fair deal for Ontario’s nurses.
Nurses say they are demanding better staffing and better wages to provide better care to their patients.
