Well being-care staff will probably be delivering a big “all-we-want-for-Christmas” vacation card to Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday at Queen’s Park.

Hospital nurses, private help staff, cleaners, paramedical workers, and union representatives from Ontario’s 5 largest well being care unions are set to make the particular supply in the present day at 10:30 am

Within the present of silent solidarity, hospital staff throughout the province can even be sporting “Invoice 124 NO MORE” stickers in the present day.

The primary message is “Respect the Invoice 124 choice; do not enchantment” as hospitals in Ontario grapple with “excessive affected person ranges, too low staffing, and the persevering with exodus of colleagues.”

On Nov. 29, the Ontario Superior Courtroom of Justice declared Invoice 124, which caps pay will increase at 1 per cent or three years for public sector staff, unconstitutional.

Well being-care staff need the Premier to simply accept the courtroom’s choice and drop a “expensive and disrespectful enchantment that can end in extra well being care workers leaving their jobs.” The deadline to enchantment the courtroom ruling is Dec. 29.

Final month, CUPE, SEIU, ONA, OPSEU/SEFPO, and Unifor got here collectively to name on Ford and Well being Minister Sylvia Jones to undertake their five-point plan to stabilize the Ontario’s “crashing well being care system and retain exhausted workers.”

It contains respect for staff by scrapping Invoice 124 and permitting collective bargaining to find out wage charges to stabilize staffing ranges, boosting frontline staffing by offering responsive incentives to the present workforce and return-to-work incentives for individuals who have left, relieving administrative stress by hiring new hospital help workers, investing in folks, not revenue, by proscribing the usage of non-public well being care staffing businesses, and stopping privatization by committing to speculate all new funding in public hospitals.