It's time to re-instate Pandemic Pay for all healthcare workers. As we learn more about safe vaccination roll-out plans, governments are rightly identifying essential workers in the healthcare system as priority recipients of approved COVID-19 vaccines.
Each year, on December 1, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with HIV and to remember all those who have died from AIDS-related illness.
Today marks the first day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. Especially during a pandemic, where mental and physical abuse has increased against women, girls,
SEIU Healthcare stands with all unions that represent paramedics in support of the recommendation of the EMS Section 21 subcommittee to establish itself as a separate, stand-alone committee.
Mike Wheeler has been in the healthcare industry for the past 16 years, in both the hospital and long-term care sector. He works at the Lennox and Addington Hospital in the maintenance department.
SEIU Healthcare recently profiled a member from our region 3. Jamie Pitre has been a medical radiation technologist for the past 16 years.
SEIU recently profiled a member from our region 1, who is a rehabilitation assistant who works at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, Krista Henson.
November 20, 2020 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is a day to we honour the trans, two-spirited, and non-binary people whose lives have been taken away too early from transphobic violence.
For many years, SEIU Healthcare has been advocating for WSIB coverage for Developmental Service Workers (DSW) and workers in residential care facilities.
Erin Smith-Silk is an animal attendant at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the Comparative Research department. In Erin’s small department,
Cara Thompson has been a Pharmacy Technician for the passed 21 years. She dives into the significant and diverse roles the pharmacy department plays in our health system and community.
For Corinne Kershaw a paramedic for the County of Lambton, it was not about the pandemic pay compensation, it was the lack of knowledge the government had when making changes to the healthcare system.
