BREAKING: Ford govn't to appeal court's decision to strike down Bill 124
The court’s decision comes after frontline health-care workers held a rally outside of Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital Tuesday afternoon to continue their fight for better wages and more staffing to address the ongoing hospital crisis across the province.
Workers could be heard chanting “kill that bill” and waving flags and signs that said “Respect us. Protect us. Pay us.”“I just think we need some respect. Like a 24-cent an hour raise after what we've been through over COVID, these last three years have been horrible. And they're saying they're going to give us 24 cents. Come on,” Paul Johnson, a personal support worker, told CP24.
In addition, the SEIU and other affected unions said the bill should be repealed now as it is contributing to a severe nursing shortage. The SEIU is also calling on the government to boost frontline staffing to address increased wait times, and to invest new funding in public hospitals and restrict the use of private health-care.
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