Home health care workers on strike across Ontario
Source: The Star
By: Tamara Khandaker
Almost 3,000 health care workers went on strike Friday morning at nine Community Care Access Centres across Ontario, after rejecting a contract offer Thursday night.
The strike hit nine of the province’s 14 centres, all of which have workers represented by the Ontario Nurses’ Association: Central, Central East, Erie St. Clair, North East, North Simcoe Muskoka, North West, South East, South West and Waterloo Wellington.
Employees at the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant centre voted in favour of accepting the offer.
In the GTA, the strike will affect centres in North York, York Region — including Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and Newmarket — Scarborough and northern and western Durham region, including Pickering and Ajax.
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Dianne Leclair is a Community Care Access Centre care coordinator working in the Niagara Region who expressed concerns earlier this week about the impact of a strike on patients. Workers at nine CCACs across the province went on strike this morning, but the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant centre voted in favour of accepting the offer.
Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/01/30/home-health-care-workers-on-strike-across-ontario.html
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