Three unions representing workers in Ontario’s long-term care homes are calling for reforms.
CUPE, Unifor and the Service Employees International Union are part of the Care not Profits campaign that hopes to generate public support for reforms.
They want money earned by for-profit companies to be reinvested to impact the care of residents in homes.
The unions say that in the past three months, three of the largest long-term care businesses combined paid shareholders over $58-million in dividends.
“We must learn from this crisis, and that starts with Doug Ford taking action to put people before profits,” says Jerry Dias, National President of Unifor.
CUPE Ontario’s Candace Rennick says for-profit care needs to end now, and the province should fully fund public homes.
“The crisis at the bedside has been ignored for far too long,” Rennick says. “The care conditions of residents and the working conditions of their caregivers are simply unforgivable.”
