Today
@fordnation
responded to a meeting request from ONA President Cathryn Hoy to say that he is too busy to fit us in. We’d love to know what Premier Ford considers more pressing than the worst nurse staffing crisis this province has ever seen. We've been sounding the alarm...
"When nurses are lying down in the street, something is critically wrong with health care in Ontario." - Bernie Robinson, ONA Interim Provincial President.
#onpoli
#OnLab
#SupportNurses
ONA along with 4 other healthcare unions are calling on
@fordnation
to halt his plan for private, for-profit surgical clinics: a risky venture that will cost Ontarians dearly and damage access to public care.
Read more:
#ONpoli
Hey
@fordnation
, this is happening on your doorstep. Ontario needs you to
#SupportNurses
. Stop putting profit over people. Nurses and health care professionals are lying in th street. TIME'S UP!
#onpoli
#OnLab
As you spend this holiday with family & friends, please remember all of the nurses & health-care professionals who are spending it with patients.
Let's show our appreciation for all the time they sacrifice for the health of Ontarians by replying to this post with our thanks ❤️
Breaking: ONA has received Justice Koehnen’s decision declaring Bill 124 unconstitutional & contrary to s 2(d) of the Charter. As a result of this decision, Bill 124 is void & of no effect.
Nurses are demanding the government respect the court’s decision.
#RepealBill124
#ONpoli
Today we joined leaders from Ontario's 4 largest health care unions to send
@JustinTrudeau
&
@cafreeland
a letter on our serious concerns about
@fordnation
’s efforts to privatize Ontario's healthcare system is putting our members and patients at risk.
#ONpoli
🧵1/5
The
@Fordnation
government’s actions with
#OntEd
education workers this week are further proof of an anti-union agenda that has continued since Bill 124. If
#ONLab
doesn’t stand together now, we all risk being the victims of similar tactics. 🧵1/4
I would like to express my gratitude to all the nurses caring for people everyday and especially for the heroic efforts demonstrated during this pandemic.
Thank you!
#NationalNursingWeek
Every day, the consequences of
@fordnation
political arrogance become clearer. When pressed, he shrugs his shoulders and says, "We're doing the best we can."
That just won't cut it. Doug Ford, this
#healthcarecrisis
is on you.
#ONpoli
Dear Ontario, our children need your help.
Respiratory illnesses have reached crisis levels in children's hospitals, & front-line health-care professionals caring for our children are asking you to do your part:
Please mask up in crowded indoor spaces.
Share this message.
Finally
@fordnation
is forced to pay back the $1 billion he stole from frontline workers while paying lip service about health care heroes.
Now it's time to pay nurses fairly instead of handing millions to the owners of private clinics!
#onhealth
#onpoli
Nurses and health-care professionals across the province are beyond angry that this government is continuing to defend Bill 124, and we are telling
@fordnation
: enough is enough!
Read more:
#Challenge124
#ONpoli
#Bill124NoMore
Ontario’s 5 largest health care unions have joined forces, issuing an SOS to
@fordnation
&
@SylviaJonesMPP
: your plan is failing--take action & adopt our solutions to stabilize Ontario’s crashing health care system immediately!
#onpoli
#HealthCareCrisis
ONA members across the province are standing in solidarity with
#OntEd
workers today.
Their fight is also our fight. If
#ONLab
doesn’t stand together now, we all risk falling victim of
@fordnation
anti-union tactics.
#ONpoli
In the last debate,
@Fordnation
got his math wrong, so we wanted to set the record straight.
But don't take our word for it: if you're a nurse, let Ontario know how many raises you've received from the Premier by replying to this tweet.
#NursesVote
#ONPoli
Finally
@fordnation
is forced to pay back the $1 billion he stole from frontline workers while paying lip service about health care heroes.
Now it's time to pay nurses fairly instead of handing millions to the owners of private clinics!
#onhealth
#onpoli
"Ontario is one of the richest provinces, but it spends less per person on health care than any other province. Please explain why, Premier."
How about it,
@fordnation
? Where are those tax dollars better spent than caring for Ontarians?
#onpoli
ERs in places like Almonte, Chesley and Carleton Place are closing temporarily and Minden's ER has permanently closed. Meanwhile
@fordnation
found millions for the ER closest to his cottage. All communities deserve access to health care.
#onpoli
#onhealth
We’ve waited 3 years for our day in court to challenge
#Bill124
, and it’s finally arrived! Our legal team is presenting today.
You can follow
#Challenge124
for updates.
ONA stands in solidarity with Ontario’s education workers
@osbcucscso
&
@CUPEOntario
in their pursuit of a respectful & fair new collective agreement. We encourage all unions & workers to join the fight to defend our basic rights & freedoms.
#OnPoli
#OntEd
The latest
@InfoFAO
report suggests
@FordNation
is deliberately starving the healthcare system of funds in order to create a pretext to privatize healthcare system, says Bernie Robinson, RN & ONA Interim President.
#ONpoli
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Since Doug Ford refuses to speak with nurses, let's bring the nurses to him!
All nurses, health-care professionals, friends, family and supporters are asked to join
@OnaRegion4
and
@OntarioHealthC
for a counter-protest of Doug Ford's rally in Kitchener this Friday.
#NurseVote
When
@fordnation
introduced Bill 124, he trampled the Charter rights of nurses, health-care professionals, and all public sector workers.
Bill 124 has been declared unconstitutional, but Ford is still trying to deny those rights.
Let's send him a clear message: NO APPEAL!
“Last year the
@fordnation
government underspent on health care by $860 million. This year, it’s on track to underspend by more than a billion. If we do not fight, we WILL lose public hospitals.” - Natalie Mehra (
@OntarioHealthC
), addressing
#ONAPLM
.
#ONpoli
.
@FordNation
is asking burned out nurses to "volunteer" vs being paid like doctors at up to $220 per hour. This is further disrespect for a female-dominated profession. Yet another classic example of the disrespect shown to RNs and why they are leaving. TIME FOR CHANGE!
#onpoli
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is calling for the province of Ontario to immediately stop Canadian Blood Services (CBS) from outsourcing plasma collection to a foreign-owned for-profit plasma collection corporation in Ontario.
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Oh wow, investments in beds. That ought to fix everything. 🙄
So who will be caring for the patients using these beds? Maybe we should call a code orange to get an answer to that.
Joined by
@fordnation
, I had the opportunity to tour the Specialized Care Centre, which is aiding with the surge capacity for
#LTC
residents & hospital patients across the GTA.
We’ll continue to make necessary investments to ensure those who are in need of a bed, will have one.
Our health-care system has been underfunded for years, but on Doug Ford's watch, the nursing shortage has become dramatically worse. How bad do things have to get before
@Fordnation
finally does the right thing? Demand action now:
#ONpoli
#healthcarecrisis
Once again, evidence shows private, for-profit health care to be wildly more expensive than publicly-delivered care.
We're going to be paying for privatization in higher taxes and worse care!
#onpoli
Hospitals are already struggling to meet surging demand, and now we hear Ontario is spending $21.3 billion LESS than what is needed, projecting a shortfall of 33,000 nurses & PSWs over the next 6 years?
Is this what
@Fordnation
calls "innovation"?
#ONpoli
Hospitals are already struggling to meet surging demand, and now we hear Ontario is spending $21.3 billion LESS than what is needed, projecting a shortfall of 33,000 nurses & PSWs over the next 6 years?
Is this what
@Fordnation
calls "innovation"?
#ONpoli
First
@SylviaJonesMPP
blamed nurses & health-care professionals taking vacation for ER problems. Now she's blaming patients.
The
@FordNation
government has mismanaged Ontario's health care for 5 years. When will they take responsibility?
#ONpoli
As emergency rooms in Durham and Wingham are scheduled to close this long weekend, we learn that
@fordnation
spent $1.7-billion LESS on health care in the last year than planned.
Is he actively trying to starve our public health care system?!
Our Health Minister is completely out of touch.
Nurses, if you're considering leaving your profession, or have left, please reply to this tweet with your reason why. Tag
@SylviaJonesMPP
so she gets the reality check she seems to need.
#ONpoli
NEW: Ontario's Health Minister, when asked about whether continuing to challenge Bill 124 will exacerbate the problem of nurses leaving the sector claims:
"We have not seen a mass exodus of nurses leaving the system."
#onpoli
As you spend this holiday with family and friends, please remember all of the nurses and health-care professionals who are spending it with patients. Let's show our appreciation for all the time they sacrifice for the health of Ontarians by replying to this post with our thanks❤️
Ontario's health care is in crisis, and the only way to address that crisis is to
#SupportNurses
.
If you were shocked by today's protest, it's time to take action. Contact your MPP and Doug Ford. Tell them nurses deserve a better contract.
#onpoli
"The government is meant to be a steward of tax payer dollars. When they are spending $200/hr on a private agency nurse, that is not good stewarding of tax payer dollars."
-
@CathrynOna
#HealthCareCrisis
#RepealBill124
Over 90% of ONA members are women.
While male-dominated professions like firefighting and policing are exempt from
#Bill124
, nurses, teachers, and public sector workers are being impacted by a 1% cap on salary increases.
This is why we
#Challenge124
.
Hospitals are already struggling to meet surging demand, and now we hear Ontario is spending $21.3 billion LESS than what is needed, projecting a shortfall of 33,000 nurses & PSWs over the next 6 years?
Is this what
@Fordnation
calls "innovation"?
#ONpoli
Thousands of frontline health-care workers, represented by 5 unions, are standing in solidarity to show
@fordnation
and
@KingstonHSC
that we are all together in this fight to defend public health care and say NO to privatization!
#ygk
#onpoli
#onlab
Privatization: Hard to swallow.
@Fordnation
says that privatizing health care will be good for Ontario. He’s wrong. For-profit care will drain away public money for private profits…and we’ll all pay the price.
Take action:
#NursesTalkTruth
#ONpoli
"This reckless use of public money could be avoided if the government simply paid [nurses] a reasonable wage.
@fordnation
refusal to do this suggests he has an agenda that has nothing to do with good governance." -
@LindaMcQuaig
#onhealth
#onpoli
When
@fordnation
introduced Bill 124, he trampled the Charter rights of nurses, health-care professionals, and all public sector workers.
Bill 124 has been declared unconstitutional, but Ford is still trying to deny those rights.
Let's send him a clear message: NO APPEAL!
ERs in places like Almonte, Chesley and Carleton Place are closing temporarily and Minden's ER has permanently closed. Meanwhile
@fordnation
found millions for the ER closest to his cottage. All communities deserve access to health care.
#onpoli
#onhealth
ONA President
@erinariss
and health care allies were just kicked out of the legislature for loudly voicing their opposition to
#Bill60
, which expands the scope of private health care in Ontario.
We won't let
@Fordnation
silence our opposition to his drive to privatize!
#onpoli
Nurses are highly valued elsewhere.
But in Ontario, Doug Ford suppressed their wages & suspended their right to fair bargaining—making the nursing shortage worse.
@OntHospitalAssn
&
@fordnation
: prove that you value nurses. Time is running out.
#onpoli
Health Minister
@SylviaJonesMPP
is calling on patients to show compassion for health-care professionals in overwhelmed emergency departments.
Is that the same compassion
@fordnation
is showing nurses as he continues to defend
#Bill124
?
#ONpoli
53 beds in North Bay
15 new beds in Timmins
34 new beds in Thunder Bay
15 new beds in Subury
Cool story,
@fordnation
.
But who's going to staff all those beds when all your nurses have left the profession?
#onpoli
#NursesVote
In 2019, Alberta privatized surgical clinics—just like
@Fordnation
is doing now in Ontario.
By 2022, Alberta had the “worst wait times performance for priority procedures in the country.”
Privatization means paying more for less care!
#onpoli
#onhealth
When
@fordnation
introduced Bill 124, he trampled the Charter rights of nurses, health-care professionals, and all public sector workers.
Bill 124 has been declared unconstitutional, but Ford is still trying to deny those rights.
Let's send him a clear message: NO APPEAL!
❌ Data from Quebec: private surgeries cost 2X more than public ones.
❌ CBC Report: Hospitals are paying up to 8X more for nurses from private firms.
How much more evidence does
@fordnation
need before he admits that privatization is a bad deal?
#onpoli
There's no easy way to capture all that you accomplished today.
THOUSANDS came out to
#SupportNurses
.
And this is just the start.
@OntHospitalAssn
&
@fordnation
this is what solidarity looks like. Are you ready for it?
#onpoli
You don't have to look at other option. We know that private health care = worse health outcomes + it costs taxpayers more. ONA has provided many solutions to address the crisis in health-care. All those solutions include properly funding PUBLIC health care, not starving it
My question to Minister
@SylviaJonesMPP
about possible privatization of health care in Ontario. Her response? That the province is “looking at options”
#onpoli
"Does it make sense to pay millions and millions of dollars to private nursing agency CEO's when we could instead be spending those funds to keep emergency rooms open and to provide public health care to Ontarians when and where they need it?" -
@Wayne_Gates
#onpoli
#onhealth
"I would never have spoken out if I hadn't heard Premier Ford say these private clinics wouldn't charge you extra."
@Fordnation
, do you have an answer for Lois about why she had to pay for Ontario health care with her credit card?
#Bill60
#ONpoli
Today we reaffirm that ONA stands in solidarity with all members of the LGBTQI2S+ community. We strongly condemn all forms of discrimination and oppression. There is no place for hate in our society.
Ontario in 2023:
❌2.2 million Ontarians without family doctors
❌20.9 hours average ER wait time
❌500+ nursing vacancies at The Ottawa Hospital alone
Why does Ontario tolerate
@fordnation
egregious underfunding of public health care?
#ONpoli
“The public is not aware what is happening to health care. We the workers, we see it first hand and it’s so important to educate our public so they know what is happening on the front lines.” - ONA Local 75 Bargaining Union President Angela Spiler
A large group of hospital staff including nurses, personal support workers and lab technologists rallied at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton against the Ford government’s plan to contract out hospital services to private, for-profit clinics.
More:
Privatization: Hard to swallow.
@Fordnation
says that privatizing health care will be good for Ontario. He’s wrong. For-profit care will drain away public money for private profits…and we’ll all pay the price.
Take action:
#NursesTalkTruth
#ONpoli
Privatization: Hard to swallow.
Doug Ford says that privatizing health care will be good for Ontario. He’s wrong. For-profit care will drain away public money for private profits…and we’ll all pay the price.
Take action:
#NursesTalkTruth
#ONpoli
Nurses know there's a staffing crisis in health care.
Patients know there's a staffing crisis in health care.
When will
@OntHospitalAssn
&
@fordnation
admit it and take action to
#SupportNurses
?
Join the fight for better care on April 5. More:
#Onpoli
On Tuesday—May 2—thousands of front-line RNs, RPNs, medical lab technologists, health care aides, cleaners, clerical & other hospital staff at
@KingstonHSC
are going public with their fight to stop
@fordnation
plan to privatize the patient care.
Details:
Privatization is not the solution for the challenges our public health care system is facing, and cuts to ER services in rural communities like Minden are just the beginning!
Tell
@fordnation
this has to stop:
#NursesTalkTruth
#Onhealth
#Onoli
“The public is not aware what is happening to health care. We the workers, we see it first hand and it’s so important to educate our public so they know what is happening on the front lines.” - ONA Local 75 Bargaining Union President Angela Spiler
"When the government says they're meeting with healthcare leaders, they're talking about management and administration. They're not meeting with nurses. My meeting with
@SylviaJonesMPP
has been pushed to Sept. 27." -
@CathrynOna
#RepealBill124
#HealthCareCrisis
Health care is in crisis across the country, and here in Ontario
@Fordnation
has billions of dollars in reserve from underspending on care. What will it take for Ford to invest in our strained public health care system before it collapses!?
#onpoli
ONA is deeply alarmed by reports of private orthopedic surgeries now being performed under a veil of secrecy on weekends at the Riverside campus of The Ottawa Hospital.
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Privatization is death by a thousand cuts.
A critical staffing shortage. ER closures. Longer wait times. A gamble on privatization. Under
@fordnation
watch, public health-care isn’t getting better—it’s bleeding out.
Take action:
#nursestalktruth
#onpoli
Privatization: Hard to swallow.
@Fordnation
says that privatizing health care will be good for Ontario. He’s wrong. For-profit care will drain away public money for private profits…and we’ll all pay the price.
Take action:
#NursesTalkTruth
#ONpoli
The Ford government has been underfunding health care & undervaluing nurses for years. It’s like they want the public system to fail.
@OntHospitalAssn
&
@fordnation
need to prove that nurses are valued here—right now. Because the clock is ticking.
#onpoli
“If we have so many new nurses, why is it that Ontario is seeing hundreds of emergency departments continuing to have to close due to nurse staffing shortages?” asks ONA President
@erinariss
.
#fightlocal
#onpoli
#onlab
“We don’t need the American-style health care here...We have a good system here; they just need to put the money back into our hospitals.”
- Annette Saccon, Bargaining Unit President, for ONA Local 99, speaking at the protest in Kingston earlier this week.
Do you oppose
@fordnation
drive to privatize Ontario's health-care system? Make your voice heard in the
@OntarioHealthC
citizen referendum!
Vote in person at polling stations across the province May 26-27.
Or vote online today:
#publichospitalvote
#onpoli
Why do you call us heroes?
Do heroes deserve a one per cent limit on their wage increases?
Do heroes deserve their rights to be taken away to freely negotiate fair wages?
#StopBill124
I want to thank all our frontline health care heroes for setting a new record!
190,129 vaccinations in one day,
#TeamOntario
!
I have said from day one, if we get the vaccines, we will get people vaccinated.
We've said again and again: Doug Ford's
#Bill124
interfered with the collective bargaining rights of nurses & health-care professionals. And from Sept. 12 we take that belief to court – backed up by extensive evidence.
Follow along right here on social media as we
#Challenge124
.
"Whether you live there or not, you should be paying attention. What’s happening in Minden speaks to the broader state of our health-care system."
Though it might look like a local campaign,
#savemindenER
is a fight all Ontarians need to support!
#onpoli
❌ Data from Quebec: private surgeries cost 2X more than public ones.
❌ CBC Report: Hospitals are paying up to 8X more for nurses from private firms.
How much more evidence does
@fordnation
need before he admits that privatization is a bad deal?
#onpoli
Do you oppose
@fordnation
drive to privatize Ontario's health-care system? Make your voice heard in the
@OntarioHealthC
citizen referendum!
Vote in person at polling stations across the province May 26-27.
Or vote online today:
#publichospitalvote
#onpoli
Ken's got a message for
@fordnation
: The only way out of the current health care staffing crisis is to
#SupportNurses
!
Join Ken and other health-care professionals in their fight at an action on April 5 in Toronto. Details:
#Onpoli
#Onlab
"Ford & other conservatives keep repeating the mantra that people just want better care and don’t care how it's delivered. But people do care. Recent polling released by the
@OFLabour
showed that 60% of Ontarians oppose private health care delivery."
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