Ontario Nurses’ Association

Today, representatives from ONA are making a deputation to the Community and Health Services Committee at the Region of Waterloo about nurses bargaining a new collective agreement with the Region of Waterloo Public Health and Paramedic Services.
https://ona.org/news/20251007-waterloo-public-health/

In this piece from ONA's F-Word digital magazine, an ONA member shares how they believe nurses have been disrespected by the recent hospital arbitration decision.

Read their story: https://onamag.org/fight/the-vent/fifty-five-and-frugal/

Research from HOOPP & Abacus Data suggests Canadians are struggling for save for retirement, with nearly half worried about outliving their savings. Access to a good workplace pension, like HOOPP, can help. https://hoopp.com/news-and-insights/research-and-analysis/2025-canadian-retirement-survey

It's National Occupational Therapist (OT) month, and we are proud to represent OTs in several of our Bargaining Units. They are a vital part of the health-care team, working to ensure the best quality of life for patients and clients.

Learn more: https://ona.org/news/national-ot-month/
#OTMonth

Today is the #NDTR. It is a time to recognize & commemorate the intergenerational harm that residential schools caused to Indigenous families & communities, and to honour those who have been affected by this injustice.
https://onamag.org/fuse/rights/how-to-bring-reconciliation-into-your-daily-life/

ONA members put the Victorian Order of Nurses board on notice that it must respect and pay home care nurses properly. Registered nurses working in home care are the lowest paid nurses in the province. Read the full story: https://onamag.org/fuel/provincial-campaigns/home-care-is-hanging-by-a-thread/

The ONA Board of Directors is proud to announce a new Member Recognition Advisory Team, with a mandate to help us all celebrate members of many professions.

For more info, and to apply, visit: https://ona.org/join-a-committee-or-team/provincial-teams-expression-of-interest-form/#form

64 ONA members providing public health care to 31 municipalities, 6 First Nations communities & 4 other areas are entering conciliation Sept. 29 seeking a respectful collective agreement with North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit https://ona.org/news/20250926-north-bay-conciliation/

As we prepare for #NDTR on Tuesday, September 30, we urge our members, staff and allies to take this opportunity to learn about and reflect on our past and how we can meaningfully participate in reconciliation in Canada.

Learn more: https://ona.org/news/ndtr/

Tel was one of 40 randomly selected ONA members invited to participate in the Grand Parade, considered to be the heart of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival.

Read about what this experience meant to Tel: https://onamag.org/fuse/rights/caribbean-carnival-e-p-i-c-event-for-members/

In this F-Word Vent, an ONA member shares how the passion they feel for nursing has been buried under layers of exhaustion, resentment and moral injury from the current health care environment.

Read their story: https://onamag.org/fight/the-vent/killing-my-passion/
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Are you interested in taking political action on nursing and health-care issues? We're looking for a member from ONA Region 1 to join the Provincial Political Action Committee.

Find out more: https://ona.org/join-a-committee-or-team/board-committees/.

The deadline is Oct 2.

The ONA Board of Directors is proud to announce a new Member Recognition Advisory Team, with a mandate to help us all celebrate members of many professions.

For more info, and to apply, visit: https://ona.org/join-a-committee-or-team/provincial-teams-expression-of-interest-form/#form

The Fight section of ONA's new F-Word digital magazine is where you share stories of your solidarity in action. In this piece, an ONA member shares their experience of some dubious communication practices on the part of HR & management. More: https://onamag.org/fight/the-vent/psychological-warfare/

About 50 primary care workers at the North York Family Health Team hosted information pickets today to call attention to their demand for fair wages ahead of conciliation next week.

Read our full media release: https://ona.org/news/20250918-nyfht-conciliation/

The fight is not over.
If you're a member from the hospital sector, join tonight’s virtual sector meeting starting at 7 p.m.

Register here: ona.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is what fortitude looks like. Our Hospital Provincial Negotiating Team, made of up of elected front-line ONA members.

We honour the work of this fierce team, and all the members who joined bargaining action teams to show up and fight for their demands.

This Fri. Sept. 5, 7-9:30 p.m., we'll host a hospital sector information meeting via zoom to review the arbitration decision from Arbitrator Sheri Price between ONA and the Participating Hospitals. This is a non-voting meeting.

Register: https://ona.zoom.us/meeting/register/3XWI1BY6T5ypWstmjhyWTg

Ontario Nurses’ Association condemns hospital arbitration decision as a betrayal of 60,000 nurses and meaningful collective bargaining • Ontario Nurses' Association TORONTO, ON, September 3, 2025 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) condemns the arbitration decision released today, setting the terms of a new two-year contract between the Ontario Hospital Assoc...

(11/11) ONA members will be closely reviewing the decision in the coming days and carefully considering next steps.

Ariss notes, “We are more organized than ever before, and we’re not backing down.”

Read the full release: ona.org/news/2025090...
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(10/11) A record number of ONA members organized in their workplaces and communities in recent months to take escalating collective actions in support of their bargaining demands.

(9/11) “This decision once again puts the lie to the false promise that arbitration can deliver fairness without the right to job action. We wholly reject this decision.”

(8/11) “Hospital employers and the provincial government have benefitted from more than 15 years of failed bargaining settled by arbitrators that serve the interests of employers, not nurses and working people,” says Ariss.

(7/11) and it ignores nurses’ top priority detailed in their arbitration submission for minimum safe staffing levels to protect them from rampant violence and allow faster and better care.

The new contract is retroactive to April 1, 2025 and expires March 31, 2027.

(6/11) it rejects basic job protection, giving employers free reign to pursue mass layoffs in a province with the lowest number of registered nurses per capita;

(5/11) The arbitration decision pushes wages for Ontario hospital nurses further behind, issuing 3% and 2.25% in 2025 & 2026 based on the comparator of retail clerks and office workers;

(4/11) "It tells a workforce that is overwhelmingly women that the unchecked and brutal violence we face every day is acceptable, and our safety is not important. As nurses, as women, as workers, we will not accept this.”

(3/11) "Price’s failure to deliver safe staffing ratios sends a clear message to Ontario nurses that we do not deserve the same safety in numbers that other front-line workers in dangerous professions – like police and firefighters – are afforded."

(2/11) ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss, RN, says arbitrator Sheri Price’s decision “sets a new low in the history of bargaining for Ontario’s nurses."

(ONA) condemns the arbitration decision released today, setting the terms of a new two-year contract between the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and more than 60,000 hospital-sector members as a betrayal of nurses, of working women, and the right to meaningful collective bargaining.

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“VON nurses are the unsung heroes of our health-care system—they’re out in the community, risking it all, without access to help. It’s absurd that they’re in the most danger and yet they’re the least paid.”

Home care nurses are demanding better.
https://nursestalktruth.ca/home-care
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