Nurses march in Toronto to demand better wages, staffing, working conditions | CBC News

Hundreds of Ontario nurses rallied and marched in Toronto on Thursday to call for higher wages, increased hospital staffing, improve working

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Hundreds of Ontario nurses rallied and marched in Toronto on Thursday to call for higher wages, increased hospital staffing, improve working conditions and a better contract.

Members of the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) took to the streets as mediation continues with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) The nurses gathered at Sheraton Centre Hotel in downtown Toronto before they marched north on University Avenue, past what is known as Hospital Row, to the front lawn of Queen's Park.

"We need a better health-care system, better staffing, better wages. We can provide better care when we have better staffing. That's what we're fighting for,"said Janice Petina, a nurse for less than two years, who was at the Queen's Park protest. [...]

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Support Workers. You Can’t Combat a Powerful Corporation Without Weaponizing Their Labor Force Against Them First.

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propaganda works, it’s why cops are worshipped, it’s why the military is worshipped, it’s also why low income workers are treated like dirt.

we’ve been exposed to propaganda our entire lives telling us that low income workers don’t matter. that you need to work hard so you don’t become a low income worker. that if you become a low income worker you failed.

that’s not true. that’s all propaganda we’ve been fed since we were children.

supporting strikes, like the amazon warehouse strike, by boycotting amazon until the warehouse workers are done striking, is a way to improve the public image of low income workers, in this specific case, of amazon warehouse workers.

it’s a way to show the public they can be powerful.

it’s important to get behind this sort of action organized by low income workers because we all need them to know they’re important, and we all need to know they’re important.

you can’t do anything against a capitalist when workers have no power. by believing in low income workers, by supporting them, we are encouraging them, we are telling them they can keep going. we are telling them they should keep going.

none of us win when we treat important labor like dirt. none of us will win if we don’t jump at a chance to support our fellow workers.

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