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Nursing News

• TORONTO – Registered nurses choose SEIU
  Registered nurses at Fairview Nursing Home are now members of the fastest-growing union in Canada.
• PUSLINCH - SEIU Wins Union Vote by a Whopping 85%
  Eighty-five per cent of the workers at Morriston Park Nursing and Retirement Home in Puslinch, Ontario voted to join SEIU Local 1 Canada. The result of the November 7, 2008 vote gave 43 workers at Morriston Park a voice in their workplace.
• SEIU to Dalton McGuinty - Stop dithering on nursing home standards
  There are four priorities the Ontario government must act on immediately to ensure nursing home residents are cared for in dignity says Sharleen Stewart, President of Service Employees International Union Local 1 Canada
• RPNs win province-wide wage adjustment In Interest Arbitration, SEIU Local 1 Canada wins award to raise RPN wages
  In an arbitration award for Registered Practical Nurses at 36 hospitals across Ontario, Arbitrator Stephen Raymond awarded a new base rate of $23.01.
• TORONTO - Holiday Season Arrives Early for Toronto Nursing Home Workers
  Employees at Labdara Lithuanian Nursing Home in Toronto received an early holiday gift when they won a union certification vote on Dec. 17, 2007. 80 workers are now members of SEIU Local 1 Canada, the fastest growing union in Ontario.
• MISSISSAUGA - Mississauga Nursing Home Employees Join SEIU Local 1 Canada
  Employees at Dom Lipa Nursing Home in Mississauga voted for change by joining SEIU Local 1 Canada at a union certification vote held on Sep. 13, 2007.
• The Legislature Can Prevent 33,000 Injuries by Passing Bill 30 Say Health-care Unions
  Three of Ontario’s largest health care unions are calling upon the provincial government to show they really care about worker safety by passing Bill 30, the Safer Needles Save Lives Act.
• Workers Gather to Support Safe Needles Legislation: Will Attend Queen's Park to Present Postcards
  Registered nurses and other health-care workers from three Ontario unions will gather at Queen's Park Thursday morning to present 1,500 postcards from Ontarians calling for a law mandating the use of safe needles in provincial health-care facilities.
• Interest Arbitration Fails RPNs
  Registered Practical Nurses suffered an unexpected setback after an interest arbitration award failed to complete the process of wage standardization.
• SEIU Hospital Workers Ratify New Contract by Huge Majority
  Vote tally reveals 93% approval for agreement struck by SEIU and OHA.
• Statement from SEIU Local 1.on President Sharleen Stewart on Nursing Week
  Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, Personal Support Workers and Health Care Aides provide the caring hands that make our public health care system work. Nursing Week May 8 - 14, allows all of us to pay tribute to the valuable contribution nursing staff
• SOUTHERN ONTARIO - Oakwood Nursing Home Workers Choose SEIU Local 1.on
  In an Ontario Labour Relations Board supervised vote, (January 12th) nursing home workers at six Oakwood Retirement Communities Inc. locations in southern Ontario voted 63 per cent in favour of the Service Employees International Union Local 1.on as their
• LONDON - RNs at London Nursing Home Join SEIU
  Registered Nurses at the Dearness Home in London, Ontario voted 10 to 7 for SEIU Local 1.on presentation on the job in an Ontario Labour Relations Board supervised vote last Friday.
• SCARBOROUGH - More Nursing Home Workers Join SEIU Local 1.on
  On June 22nd, employees at an independent nursing home in Scarborough, Craiglee Nursing Home Ltd. voted 51 to 8 in an Ontario Labour Relations Board supervised vote, to join SEIU Local 1.on.
• Nursing Homes Need A Specific Standard Of Care
  The nursing home reform report released today by Ontario's Minister of Health and Long Term are steps in the right direction.