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On April 25, 2020, Doug Ford announced Pandemic Pay for eligible frontline healthcare workers, effective for 16 weeks from April 24, 2020 until August 13, 2020. While this was a step in the right direction, tens of thousands of frontline healthcare workers were wrongfully excluded. This is our open letter to the Premier.

On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, we will be visiting the Niagara and St. Catharines area to continue our Appreciation Rallies. Our membership is not only fighting on the frontlines, but all of you are also showing up for all your sisters and brothers by participating in these rallies.

For the past two months, SEIU Healthcare has organized several Appreciation Rallies. Each week, we have more healthcare workers, family, friends, and members of the public join our movement. On Tuesday, June 2, 2020, we return to Scarborough.

The for-profit long-term care corporation confirmed it had no plan to deal with the coronavirus and spent a mere $300,000 of its own money on COVID-19

Since the Ontario government announced their Pandemic Pay at the end of April, we have been in constant discussions with them regarding positions that were excluded, including MDRD, hospital ward and unit clerks, clerical staff, and recreational staff/activity coordinators.

When we first started our Appreciation Rallies in April, the Durham Region was the first area we visited. On Thursday, May 28, we will be back in Pickering and Ajax to carry on our support and show our membership that will are still here for them during this very stressful and uncertain time.

On Thursday, May 28, SEIU Healthcare will be bringing our purple power to Cambridge. The Appreciation Rallies that we have organized all over Ontario have boosted the spirits of our membership and has shown employers and the government that SEIU Healthcare stands together with our members on the frontlines.

RICHMOND HILL, ON, May 26 – The following is a statement from Sharleen Stewart, president of SEIU Healthcare, the union that represents over 60,000 frontline healthcare workers in Ontario:

Hundreds of vehicles have joined our Appreciation Rallies all over Ontario. We invite you to join us in London and Oshawa to be a part of this powerful movement

SEIU Healthcare continues our Appreciation Rallies in Barrie! We invite you to join us this Saturday, May 23, as we continue to support our membership, honour all frontline workers working tirelessly to protect Ontario, and remember all those who have passed during this pandemic.