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MEDIA ADVISORY: Rally calls on Ford government to fund Joseph Brant, as hospital cuts staff

25 November 2024
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Event Information

Begins: 27 November 2024
Location: Burlington, ON

BURLINGTON, ON –(COMMUNITYWIRE)– Workers at Joseph Brant Hospital will be holding a rally at noon on Wednesday to protest the elimination of 10 positions they say will negatively impact patient care.

CUPE 1065, the union representing workers at the hospital, says the hospital can’t afford cuts to frontline positions amidst a staffing crisis, which is already impacting quality of patient care and workforce morale.

Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), which represents about 50,000 staff across the province, said the union is noticing an alarming pattern of staffing cuts at multiple hospitals in Ontario because of government underfunding – an unacceptable development considering the 2,000 patients waiting on stretchers in hospital hallways for beds and the 250,000 people waiting for surgeries in Ontario.

OCHU-CUPE and CUPE 1065 will provide more information to media at the rally on Wednesday.

WHO:
Michael Hurley, president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE), and Jacqui Curtis, president of CUPE 1065 and RPN at Joseph Brant Hospital

WHAT:
Rally to protest job cuts at Joseph Brant Hospital

WHERE:
Joseph Brant Hospital, 1245 Lakeshore Rd., Burlington, ON

WHEN:
12 p.m. on Wednesday, November 27

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For more information, contact:

Zaid Noorsumar, CUPE Communications
znoorsumar@cupe.ca
647-995-9859

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