Political Action

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We know how tough it is on the front lines. We’ve been yelled at, humiliated, and put in harm’s way. But as a powerful and mature union, we will not be silenced. We speak up where we see employer policies and government decisions that impact our ability to provide quality care. And we don’t give up. After all, when we all come together on a common issue, we’re hard to ignore.

March 20, 2025: All Out Rally at Mt. Sinai and UHN.

ONA082 members were out and visible supporting nurses' calls for SAFE STAFFING RATIOS and demands to keep healthcare PUBLIC! We interacted with the public getting signatures for our petition to Queen's Park, and also gained media attention as well! Thanks to everyone who came out and made this successful!

2025 Provincial Election Candidate Petitions

Thousands ONA hospital members across the province signed a petition demanding that candidates in the provincial election support nursing ratios if they get elected. Members from ONA082 bargaining units at Mount Sinai and Women's College Hospital presented NDP candidate, Jessica Bell with our petitions and asked for her support, which she emphatically gave.

2025 Hospital Bargaining - Have a Heart

We banded together with ONA members across Ontario to deliver a message directly to our hospital CEOs, urging them to have a heart and implement Nursing Rations Now! Each of these hearts was signed by one of our ONA82 nurses or health-care professionals.

2025 Hospital Bargaining - All-Out Rally (January 29, 2025)

On January 29, we joined hundreds of ONA members and community allies in downtown Toronto outside mediation talks between ONA and the Ontario Hospital Association. Raising the concerns of nurses across the province is what our Union does, and this is one of the ways we do it!

Sick Kids Pension Solidarity (December 3, 2024)

We joined in solidarity alongside workers from Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and CUPE Ontario outside SickKids Foundation to demand that their employer give them a proper pension. We support the fight of these workers for a proper pension that allows them to retire above the poverty line!

Understaffing Graveyard (November 14, 2024)

ONA members staged a hospital understaffing graveyard outside the Ontario Hospital Association. We held a funeral to call attention to the loss of nurse and health-care professional positions and hours and to put pressure on hospital CEOs to reverse their deliberate and detrimental decreases in staffing levels.