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Workers at the Extendicare-run Iler Lodge are sounding the alarm after months of issues with the new payroll system has left some dreading the holidays. The roughly 140 members of CUPE 1370 have filed three grievances and have been trying to work with management to resolve issues caused by a new payroll system that the long-term care facility rolled out earlier this year.

Residents and workers at Sherbrooke Heights are celebrating today after the tentative agreement CUPE 5129 reached with the employer was ratified last night in a unanimous vote. Members of the union had been seeking a fair offer on wages, which were some of the lowest in the sector.

CUPE members’ perspectives helped shape a new report on home care, titled Caring about Care Workers: Centring Immigrant Women Personal Support Workers in Toronto’s Home Care Sector. Researchers found that personal support workers, PSWs, are subsidizing Ontario’s home care system with their unpaid labour.

Shortcomings of two decades of privatization in England must be learnt by Ontario before it’s too late, warn advocates. Public hospitals in Scotland were more egalitarian and efficient at reducing surgical wait-times than private clinics and hospitals contracted out by England’s health system, according to new academic reports.

A new academic study says mandating nurse-to-patient ratios would save lives, improve overall outcomes for patients, and alleviate the staffing crisis in Ontario’s hospitals.

After nearly three years of contract talks and still no deal, the CUPE bargaining committee at Huron Perth Public Health (HPPH) is heading into a second conciliation meeting with the employer on February 15, 2024.