Health Care: Long Term Care Facilities

March 28, 2013 The 35 members of OPSEU Local 501 at Perram House are being advised by their bargaining team to firmly reject employer proposals to cuts in their first collective agreement.  more...

March of Dimes outreach workers call for fair slice of funding

August 14, 2012 Hamilton Ontario March of Dimes outreach workers say they deserve a fair slice of the funding increase their employer has received. more...

June 20, 2012 The Ministry of Health and Long Term Care is sending inspectors out to conduct investigations which they are not educated and trained to do says the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Nursing home residents are being placed at risk to save money on inspection. more...

June 11, 2012 Too few nursing home inspectors mean some homes may be waiting more than five years for their “annual” inspection says the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Individual complaints are taking between 30 days and a year to investigate. more...

May 11, 2012 Members of Local 262 at the Ontario March of Dimes Villa Verdi facility will hold an information picket on May 14. The employer refuses to engage in any meaningful negotiations unless the employees agree to work for less.  more...

April 27, 2012 Members of Local 262 at the Ontario March of Dimes Villa Verdi facility in Hamilton could face a possible strike or lockout at 12:01 a.m. May 17. more...

December 22, 2011 Members of OPSEU Local 593 have ratified a new two-year agreement 3 with The Clarendon Foundation in downtown Toronto. more...

November 30, 2011 Effective 2012, it is law for all members of a Regulated Health Profession to carry Professional Liability Insurance. OPSEU has, in consultation with CG&B Insurance Group, arranged for our affected members an opportunity to get insurance at a discounted rate. more...

August 19, 2011 The outcome of this election may determine your future workload, your family’s access to health care, the hours you work, who you work for, or whether you will have a job at all. The The Long Term Care sector election primer looks at the party promises, the issues, offers helpful suggestions on what you can do, and gives sample questions for all-candidate meetings.

Printed copies of the 11” x 17” Election Primer are being sent to each local. You can also download it here. more...

March 31, 2011 Members of Local 454, Personal Choice Independent Living (PCIL), have voted 100 per cent in favour of a new two-year collective agreement in a ratification vote held March 30 more...

March 24, 2011 It’s Our Nature To Care - A newsletter for OPSEU Members working in Long Term Care, Spring 2011: The provincial government has passed the long-awaited Long Term Care Homes Act. more...

January 28, 2011 The Central East Local Health Integration Network (CE LHIN) has asked Salvation Army Liberty Housing and Support to place their closure plans on hold. OPSEU approached the CE LHIN and the Minister of Health’s office over last week’s unexpected layoff of the facility’s 11 staff. The union had argued that there appeared to be no process in place around the closure. more...

January 24, 2011 On Friday January 21, employees at Liberty Housing Support Services (LHSS) were notified that the agency was shutting its doors on March 31 more...

Sector executive to meet with each bargaining unit 

Ombudsman investigation overdue

July 16, 2008 An investigation by Ombudsman André Marin into the province’s monitoring of long term care is long overdue says the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. more...

Enforceable standards of care needed in Ontario

July 8, 2008 Four unions representing long-term care workers called today, once again, for an enforceable minimum 3.5 hours of direct care. more...

Statistics tell the tale on long-term care staffing