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SEIU Local 1 Canada’s nursing members play a critical role in sustaining Ontario’s public healthcare system.

SEIU’s Nursing Division was founded in June 2006 to enhance, promote and protect the role of nurses in all practice settings. The division addresses professional practice issues such as career development, scope of practice, employment standards, and political action. These issues are now highlighted and addressed with greater weight and merit than ever before.

SEIU is the only union that has its own nursing division which addresses issues specific to nurses. SEIU nurses have a unique tradition of bargaining separately with hospitals and nursing homes, that is distinct from other service workers.

No other union in Ontario has done as much work as SEIU’s Nursing Division to promote the critical role RPNs play in all healthcare sectors, including hospitals, nursing and retirement homes, home care and community services.



Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) are both regulated by the College of Nurses of Ontario. They promote health, provide care and treat health conditions through a legislated scope of practice:

“The practice of nursing is the promotion of health and the assessment of, the provision of care for and the treatment of health conditions by supportive, preventive, therapeutic, palliative and rehabilitative means in order to attain or maintain optimal function.”
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