Local CUPE leaders are hosting an information picket line with the theme "Solve Ontario’s Long-Term Care Crisis".
The event will start at 3 p.m.
Henri Giroux, President of North Bay and District CUPE Council said, “A mandatory care standard is long overdue. Since 1992, the complexity of care needs of long term care residents has increased significantly. In 2003 the Liberal’s promised to legislate a daily care standard. Here we are in 2015 with increased incidents of violence, incontinence, falls and staff overload with documentation taking away from hands on care all over the province.”
Giroux says the ‘Time to Care’ campaign calls for making four hours of daily, hands-on care for residents the law.
The goal is to get 77,000 signatures on our petitions. That’s one signature for each of the people who reside in a nursing home in Ontario.” stated Amanda Farrow, Health Care Worker Coordinated Committee Area 6 Representative.
