15,000 postcards demanding repeal of Bill 124 delivered to Premier Ford. CUPE Local 6341 President-elect Pam Parks (Lakeridge hospitals) speaks on February 22 at Queen’s Park.

OCHU/CUPE met March 4 with the Premier’s office and asked that any retention bonus be applied to all health care workers. They asked that Bill 124 be repealed and that we be allowed to bargain real wage increases and benefit and premium improvements for the nurses and other health care workers that they represent.

Today (March 8, International Women’s Day) we collectively acknowledge the contribution women make to better Ontarians’ lives.

MARCH 16 11:00 AM Jane McKenna - 472 Brock Ave., Burlington MARCH 16 2:00 PM Parm Gill - 400 Main St. E, Milton These rallies are events in a joint bargaining campaign between CUPE and SEIU.

While their pandemic efforts have been generously praised by Doug Ford’s Ontario government, front-line hospital workers are asking for Bill 124, the wage cap legislation that devalues them and is fueling an exodus of staff from health care, to be repealed.

In response to major new plans by the Ford government to bring in for-profit hospitals, as well as their privatization of the next 30-years of long-term care, privatization of home care, privatization of COVID testing and vaccines, plans for "austerity" budgets following the election, and refusal to deal with the critical shortfalls in staffing and care, we are holding a set of very urgent, very important events in every community we can across Ontario. Please join.