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Federal-Provincial Health Care Deal: Canada’s Unions Cautiously Optimistic 

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Extreme staffing shortages and years of chronic underfunding put our public health care system at risk.

Key Points: 
  • Extreme staffing shortages and years of chronic underfunding put our public health care system at risk.
  • “Health care staff are on the brink, and our loved ones cannot access the care they need.
  • Canada’s unions are calling on our federal and provincial governments to bolster public health care by:
    Increasing funding to the public health care system and putting a stop to for-profit healthcare;
    Urgently addressing the critical shortage of health workers;
    Providing permanent and ongoing funding for public mental health services;
    Bringing long-term care entirely into the public system.
  • Canadians expect to see our elected leaders roll up their sleeves and get to work on rebuilding our public health care system.”

CLC: Premiers and PM Must Get Health Deal Done

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Friday, December 9, 2022
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The federal health minister even recently admitted they were close to a deal at last month’s health ministers’ meetings.

Key Points: 
  • The federal health minister even recently admitted they were close to a deal at last month’s health ministers’ meetings.
  • “Health care workers are being asked to work double or triple shifts just to keep their departments going.
  • “Some Conservative governments have been opening the door to privatization, trying to take advantage of today’s crisis to weaken our public health care system.
  • “We must strengthen public health care by bringing in pharmacare, mental health care and long-term care, not return to a health care system where the quality of care you get is determined by the size of your bank account.”

Bruske to PM: Work With Premiers To Fix Canada’s Crumbling Care System

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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Our crumbling public health care system is facing a crisis that requires leadership from all levels of government, warned Bruske.

Key Points: 
  • Our crumbling public health care system is facing a crisis that requires leadership from all levels of government, warned Bruske.
  • This starts with the PM and every premier coming together, working alongside health care professionals, to make sure people can access the care they need.
  • Canadians have long expressed their pride for Canadas universal public health care system.
  • Governments must now work collaboratively with health workers on lasting solutions that build a more resilientpublic health care system.

Canada’s Unions Welcome Today’s BC Court’s Decision in Cambie Case

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Friday, July 15, 2022
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OTTAWA, July 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadas unions are celebrating todays decision from the BC Court of Appeal in the Cambie Surgeries Corporation (CSC) case.

Key Points: 
  • OTTAWA, July 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadas unions are celebrating todays decision from the BC Court of Appeal in the Cambie Surgeries Corporation (CSC) case.
  • Todays decision by the court upholds the BC Supreme Courts September 2020 decision that safeguarded the key principles of public health care.
  • The BC Court of Appeal decision comes following the earlier court decision in the Cambie case which put Canadas public medicare system on trial and threatened the principle of universal and equal access to health care.
  • While we expect this case will continue to the Supreme Court and Canadas unions stand ready to defend our universal, single-payer health care system, continued Bruske.

CLC: Canada’s Unions Welcome Premiers’ Call For More Federal Health Investment – But Demand Greater Accountability

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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Canadas unions support the premiers call for increased investments from the federal government.

Key Points: 
  • Canadas unions support the premiers call for increased investments from the federal government.
  • But new funding must include accountability and be tied to strengthening public health care and addressing the dangerous shortage of health workers.
  • Frontline health care workers have been warning for years about the damage chronic underfunding has been doing to our public health care system, damage laid bare by the pandemic.
  • As chair of the Council, Premier Horgan has put strengthening health care at the centre of the premiers agenda.

Media Advisory - Canada’s Unions to Engage Premiers at the Council of the Federation on Strengthening Public Health Care

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Thursday, July 7, 2022
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Extreme staffing shortages and years of chronic underfunding are placing an unbearable strain on health workers and putting our public health care system at risk, said Bruske.

Key Points: 
  • Extreme staffing shortages and years of chronic underfunding are placing an unbearable strain on health workers and putting our public health care system at risk, said Bruske.
  • Canadas unions will be in Victoria to bring a clear message to the premiers from workers: we need urgent action to strengthen health delivery, improve access and make sure Canadas public health care system is there to care for Canadians, for generations to come.
  • Bruske said that repairing the public health care system will take the combined efforts by all levels of government and warned that Canadas unions will strongly oppose any attempts to further privatize Canadian health care.
  • Bruske added that Canadas unions are looking to the premiers to agree on urgent action to fix health care worker shortages; improve access to care; implement pharmacare; establish a standard of care and get profits out of long-term care; invest in mental health care; and ensure affordable dental care is there for everyone.

Government Must Not Break Their Promise and Leave Canadians Paying Sky-High Drug Costs

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Friday, April 15, 2022
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We are calling on the government: dont break your promise to Canadians.

Key Points: 
  • We are calling on the government: dont break your promise to Canadians.
  • We can't count on big pharmaceutical corporations to stand up for Canadians, that's the job of our governments, said Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  • The Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare made clear that strengthening thePatented Medicines Regulationsis absolutely essential to lowering drug prices and moving towards National Pharmacare.
  • Too many medicines are unaffordable and the new PMPRB framework could have saved Canadians approximately $13.2 billion over 10 years.

Health Investments Must Be Tied to Stronger Public Health Care

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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OTTAWA, Feb. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With our public health systems facing a crisis point, Canadas unions are demanding that increases to federal health transfers must be tied to delivering better health care to Canadian families.

Key Points: 
  • OTTAWA, Feb. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With our public health systems facing a crisis point, Canadas unions are demanding that increases to federal health transfers must be tied to delivering better health care to Canadian families.
  • Mental health care for people to access when they need help most.
  • But we cannot afford for some provinces to take this money and use if for tax giveaways instead of stronger public health care.
  • Canadas unions will keep pushing for new investments to be tied to achieving real improvement to our public health care systems.

Canada’s Unions Welcome Canada-Alberta Affordable Child Care Agreement

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Monday, November 15, 2021
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OTTAWA, Nov. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadas unions welcome todays long-delayed child care agreement between Canada and Alberta and thanked all the advocates who have worked so long to make this deal happen.

Key Points: 
  • OTTAWA, Nov. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadas unions welcome todays long-delayed child care agreement between Canada and Alberta and thanked all the advocates who have worked so long to make this deal happen.
  • With workers and their families facing higher costs for just about everything, bringing affordable, public child care within reach of parents from coast-to-coast-to-coast is a vital way governments can make life more affordable, said Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  • Now we need all governments to reach child care agreements, alongside increased investment in early learning and child care workers.
  • Following the announcement of a deal with Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick remain the largest jurisdictions without affordable child care agreements in place.

CLC: Workers Cannot Trust Doug Ford to be a Friend

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
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TORONTO, Nov. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today’s minimum wage announcement is another example of how Conservatives start talking friendly about workers when votes are at stake, but Doug Ford’s real record is one of putting corporate insiders first and leaving workers behind.

Key Points: 
  • Doug Ford has put his corporate buddies ahead of workers every time.
  • Behind Doug Fords chummy rhetoric, you find attacks on workers and cuts to services that everyday Ontarians rely on.
  • The Doug Ford Conservatives wrote a law that imposed a 3.4% pay cut on Ontarians, under current inflation numbers.
  • Doug Ford shouldnt tell employers its fine to impose wage cuts, just when the cost of living is skyrocketing, continued Bruske.