Ontario Health Coalition - Protest to save public healthcare

Protest to Save Public Healthcare

On May 30, 2024, your Local Union, along with thousands of workers and advocates from across Ontario, joined the Ontario Health Coalition to tell the Ford government to put a stop to the privatization of our healthcare and keep our system public!

Rallies took place in Toronto, Ottawa, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay, Dryden, and Cornwall.

UFCW Locals 175 & 633 is proud to represent several thousand healthcare workers across the province in long-term care, retirement homes, community care centres, addiction treatment centres, and in home care services. These members and others know firsthand about the effects of poor public policy when it comes to healthcare.

Some of those members were affected by the now-repealed Bill 124 which put a cap on how much compensation they could get in their collective agreements. And while this legislation has since been deemed unconstitutional and then repealed, Premier Ford continues to undermine the healthcare system in this province.

Through chronic underfunding of the public system and its workforce to shuttering hospitals, the privitzation of some core services at hospitals, and increasing funding to private clinics by more than 200%.

We must keep our eyes turned to the things that are vital to the well-being of all Ontarians. Our healthcare system must stay public and it must be accessible to all.