Tensions rise between Ontario nurses and hospitals as contract negotiations continue [Video]

Ontario nurses and hospital administrators remain on a shaky foundation as contract renegotiations continue to crawl. 

Earlier today, the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) provided an update on talks between the group and the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA).

The ONA represents over 60,000 nurses fighting for improved hospital staffing, as the organization states that the Ford administration has actively sabotaged hospital staff numbers to encourage interest in the private healthcare market. 

“Hospital CEOs and the Ford government have been intentionally understaffing our public hospitals to justify selling off public services to private, for-profit clinics. Staffing ratios are the real solution to the crisis in our hospitals, not-for-profit health care,” said ONA Provincial President Erin Ariss in an official statement. 

As a byproduct of the ongoing staffing crisis, Ontario nurses are sounding the alarm on the state of public healthcare systems, citing that they are forced to work under impossible conditions. 

“Hospital …