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Virtual Town Hall . Secure Online Voting . United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1000A Membership Bargaining Survey. Saskatchewan Nurses - Working Conditions Survey. Saskatchewan Union of Nurses. Quarter-million calls made during Toronto CUPE Strike. In the longest-ever strike in Toronto Civic workers’ history, the 26,000 members of CUPE Local 79. And TCEU Local 416. PSAC calls on members to join Ottawa museum picket lines. OPSEU invents new way to use Union Calling to interact with members. President...

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Public sector employment in Ontario is far below the rest of Canada |Defend Public Healthcare

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Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. Public sector employment in Ontario is far below the rest of Canada. The suggestion that Ontario has a deficit because its public sector is too large does not bear scrutiny. Consider the following. This contrasts with public sector employment outside of Ontario which has gone up pretty consistently and is now 4.7% higher than it was in the first half of 2011. Further, as a percentage of the population, public s...

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The growing role of Practical Nurses |Defend Public Healthcare

http://ochuleftwords.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-growing-role-of-practical-nurses.html

Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. The growing role of Practical Nurses. New Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) data. Paints a picture of rapid change in nursing in Ontario, especially for Practical Nurses (called "RPNs" in Ontario and "LPNs" elsewhere). Here is a summary of the most interesting data from those charts concerning Ontario. Increase in RPNs who graduated from college within the last ten years. Notably, across Canada, ...

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Hospital worker sick leave: too much or too little? |Defend Public Healthcare

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Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. Hospital worker sick leave: too much or too little? Ontario hospital workers are much. Absent due to illness or disability than hospital workers Canada-wide. In 2014, Ontario hospital workers were absent 10.2 days due to illness or disability, 2.9 days less than the Canada wide average. 8211; i.e . 22% less. In fact, Ontario hospital workers have had consistently fewer sick days for years. Obviously, hospital w...

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Too many public sector workers in Ontario? |Defend Public Healthcare

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Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. Too many public sector workers in Ontario? Opponents of public services often try to portray the public sector as having grown disproportionately. In fact, since 1976, the number of public sector employees has not quite kept pace with the population. In 1976, the number of public sector employees in Ontario as reported by Statistics Canada. Increase. That sounds like significant growth - true. The percentage of...

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Why long-term care needs to improve |Defend Public Healthcare

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Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. Why long-term care needs to improve. CUPE and OCHU are campaigning for a legislated minimum average of four worked hours of nursing and personal care per resident per day in long-term care (LTC) facilities. The Ontario Health Coalition has helped organize a broad consensus among labour and community groups to campaign for improved staffing. CUPE is doing its part to make this a reality. The Auditor General repo...

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Lowest health care funding increase ever? |Defend Public Healthcare

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Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. Lowest health care funding increase ever? Funding increase hits new low:. The Ontario government plans health sector spending growth of 1.2% this year compared with the interim spending estimate for 2014/15. This deepens the trend to cut health care funding increases. Health and Long-Term Care. Declining share of the economy:. As a percentage of the economy (Gross Domestic Product) Ontario government health car...

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Liberals support more private clinics - even as clinics turn on them |Defend Public Healthcare

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Briefing notes from Leftwords for the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. Pages on key topics. Liberals support more private clinics - even as clinics turn on them. The Ontario government has gotten into another donnybrook with private clinics for a second time in less than a year. Over the summer, they got into a messy dispute with private physiotherapy clinics. Moreover, she charged, the ". Existing 94 clinics have had an unlimited ability to bill the government. Despite this, the government is actuall...