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(6/6) We will also schedule a hospital-sector meeting very soon after the decision is released and will review the decision with you and answer any questions.

ONA awaits the release as eagerly as you all do. Please stay tuned.

Hospital Bargaining • Ontario Nurses' Association In 2025, more than 60,000 ONA hospital members are set to bargain a new contract with hospital CEOs.Hospital CEOs are intentionally understaffing our public hospitals and working with the Ford Conserv...

(5/6) At that time, we will share the details with all hospital-sector members on social media, on email, and on our website on the Hospital Provincial Bargaining page: ona.org/campaign/hos...

(4/6) Arbitrator Price has not committed to a date of release; however, she is working weekends and evenings to try to get the decision out in a timely manner.
Please be assured that when it is released, you will be among the first to know.

(3/6) Arbitrator Price is in frequent contact with both nominees working towards a decision. Though we'd expected to receive the final decision of the arbitration in July, arbitrator Price is still hard at work, and we remain optimistic that we will receive the decision by the end of the summer.

(2/6) Since then, the Board of Arbitration met in late May and early June to debate. ONA’s nominee Phil Abbink has worked closely with Wassim Garzouzi, ONA Legal Counsel, as well as ONA staff and Executive, to ensure that ONA’s priorities are expressed clearly to arbitrator Price.

In April of 2025 the provincial hospital contract was referred to the arbitration, and ONA and the OHA concluded their interest arbitration hearing before Arbitrator Sheri Price and nominees Philip Abbink (ONA) and Brett Christen (OHA) on April 17, 2025, after four lengthy hearing days. (1/6)

Today the CFNU submitted nurses unions’ recommendations for the federal budget, pointing to measures the federal government could take to support nursing retention, strengthen recruitment efforts and bolster public health care for all.

ONA is sounding the alarm as @uhn.ca cuts more than 40 RNs from front-line patient care, amidst an ongoing severe nursing shortage.

These cuts will be catastrophic for patients at a time when we desperately need more registered nurses, not fewer.

More: ona.org/news/2025061...
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From May 12 to 18, the 68,000 members of the Ontario Nurses’ Association will mark Nursing Week by doing what nurses do best—speaking the truth about the issues facing our health-care system & offering solutions to improve it for everyone.

Full release: ona.org/news/2025050...

“We are making way less than nurses in hospitals or nursing homes. The government must recognize that they need to do something about pay equity and treat us with respect – not as second class nurses.”

Home care nurses are demanding better.

Show support: ona.org/campaign/von...

Why should I care about International Workers’ Day? · F-Word · ONA Magazine It comes around every year. Some people mark it, some even celebrate it, but many of us may barely notice it. What is May Day, aka International Workers’ Day, all...

It comes around every year. Some people mark it, some even celebrate it, but many of us may barely notice it. What is May Day, aka International Workers’ Day, all about, & why should nurses and health-care professionals care about it? Read the full story: onamag.org/fuel/solidar...

Introducing F-Word—ONA's new digital magazine.

F-Word is for members and in members’ voices. It’s the break room, not the boardroom. It’s OUR space and our license to fight back and tell the brutal truth in our own words.

Share yours: onamag.org/contact/

DYK that in 2024 home-care registered nurses were the lowest paid RNs across all health-care sectors?

Tell the Victorian Order of Nurses Board and the Ford government that they must fix the working conditions in home care and pay fair! ona.org/campaign/von...

Ontario Nurses’ Association Enters Hospital-Sector Arbitration Today • Ontario Nurses' Association TORONTO, ON, April 2, 2025 – The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) – the union representing 60,000+ hospital-sector nurses, is entering into two days of arbitration hearings with the Ontario Hospital ...

The arbitration hearing with Arbitrator Sheri Price will wrap up tomorrow. She will issue her decision in the coming months.

See our full media release: ona.org/news/2025040...

“Staffing ratios not only improve patient care, they help retain nurses and save the health-care system much-needed funding dollars by reducing the length of stay and preventing readmission of patients.”

“By contrast, the OHA wants to use a staffing model called “just-in-time” staffing, used by some manufacturers.

“It’s horrifying that our government and hospital CEOs view nurses as nothing but an expense, when in fact doing so is a false economy,” says Ariss.

RN staffing ratios, or having standards for a maximum number of patients per nurse to care for, have been shown to improve the quality of care, reduce the rates of patient complications and death, increase nurse retention and recruitment rates and save health-care funding dollars.

“Our nurses are becoming increasingly vocal about their treatment by hospital CEOs and the Ford government.”

“Thousands of RNs across Ontario have held escalating public actions to spotlight their #1 bargaining priority: the implementation of RN-to-patient staffing ratios in hospitals.”

“Once again, contract negotiations with the OHA have failed and are now at arbitration,” says ONA President Erin Ariss, RN. “Round after round of bargaining for our hospital-sector nurses ends this way—which is unacceptable and infuriating to ONA and those who are the backbone of patient care.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA)—the union representing 60,000+ hospital-sector nurses, is entering into two days of arbitration hearings with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) today.

Read our full media release below, or on our website: ona.org/news/2025040...
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A federal election has been called, and ONA members can make a big difference in defending our public health-care system.

On APRIL 28, let’s use our votes to demand better public health care. Get involved here: ona.org/campaign/nur...
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