Doug Ford to meet again with Ontario nurses’ union on worker retention plan
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to meet again next week with the president of a union representing nurses to discuss plans to retain workers in the field.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is expected to meet again next week with the president of a union representing nurses to discuss plans to retain workers in the field.
There’s no official date set for the second meeting between Ford and Ontario Nurses’ Association president Cathryn Hoy, but Hoy said it should happen early next week.
At the initial Thursday meeting with Ford, Hoy said they discussed a controversial bill that caps annual public sector wage increases at one per cent, which Hoy’s union and other nurses groups want repealed.
Hoy said Ford didn’t commit to repeal the legislation during their meeting, but she said he “acknowledges that nurses need more in order to be retained.”
They agreed to meet again to focus on retaining nurses as the already depleted workforce struggles under the latest wave of COVID-19 to strain the health system over the past two years.
“They’re supposed to come prepared with a plan on what they are going to do or give to the nurses of Ontario to retain them,” she said.
Health worker groups have repeatedly raised that nurses and others are increasingly burnt out and many are choosing to leave the sector altogether.
Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott said following the Thursday ONA meeting the government knows “more needs to be done to further expand staffing.”
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