COPE Ontario echoes the concerns of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) regarding the waves of cuts to Ontario hospitals over the past few months.
More cuts don’t only mean more people are left without jobs. It means communities are left without care; medications and assessments could be delayed, and a reduced staff is left burnt-out and overworked.
COPE Ontario represents hundreds of hospital clerical staff who will undoubtedly feel the weight of these cuts, especially those in Local 468 who are employed at London Health Sciences Centre, which has seen 288 nursing cuts since March.
We stand with the ONA and other healthcare unions against these cuts, and against the Ford government’s steady push toward an Americanized health care system. Hospital staff do life-changing work. Communities deserve to keep it.
