{"id":86244,"date":"2022-03-15T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=86244"},"modified":"2022-03-15T21:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:42:47","slug":"ottawa-healthcare-union-members-rally-to-pressure-province-to-drop-sexist-bill-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/ottawa-healthcare-union-members-rally-to-pressure-province-to-drop-sexist-bill-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa healthcare union members rally to pressure province to drop &#8220;sexist&#8221; Bill 124"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healthcare workers in Ottawa took to the streets on Monday to protest controversial wage-suppression legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurses and frontline healthcare workers are demanding an end to Bill 124, a piece of legislation passed by the Ford government in 2019. The law introduced a one per cent cap on annual wage increases for healthcare workers in Ontario, which unions say resulted in a four per cent wage cut in 2021, and more than four per cent in 2022. On Monday, Ottawa healthcare workers gathered in Nepean in front of MPP Lisa MacLeod\u2019s office to pressure the provincial government to repeal the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The local union workers are asking MacLeod to \u201cstand with them\u201d against Bill 124, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220313005005\/en\/%E2%80%9CWill-You-Stand-With-Us-and-Call-for-the-Repeal-of-Bill-124%E2%80%9D-Ask-Ottawa-Area-Health-Care-Workers-Protesting-Monday-11-a.m.-at-MPP-Lisa-MacLeod%E2%80%99s-Office\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from Dave Verch, a local registered nurse and Eastern Ontario vice-president of CUPE\u2019s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Ford government\u2019s wage cap devalues and disrespects a largely female workforce that has made huge personal sacrifices,\u201d says Verch. \u201cIt cuts their real wages and leaves them with no ability to bargain badly needed mental supports after the trauma of caring for patients and residents through the pandemic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the full story below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare workers in Ottawa took to the streets on Monday to protest controversial wage-suppression legislation. &nbsp; Nurses and frontline healthcare workers are demanding an end to Bill 124, a piece of legislation passed by the Ford government in 2019. The law introduced a one per cent cap on annual wage increases for healthcare workers in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":86248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,223,225],"tags":[9297,6874,8644,13182,4408,2398,13186,9484,2105,1177,563,13185,13184,13183,795,13181,13180],"radio":[1290],"origine":[267,269,1571],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86244"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=86244"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=86244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}