Membership Newsletter Local 4422
Hello there Brothers and Sisters of our proud local 4422!!
I am pleased to give you your new executive for the next three year term of CUPE Local 4422!!
Corrie Lee- President of both local sites, Holly Gilbert-Vice President of McLaughlin Rd. site, Charlotte Drinkwalter-Vice-President for Mary St. Site, Secretary Treasurer- Brenda Sheehey, Secretary Recorder-Dianne Smith, Chief Steward of Mary St. - Valarie Dudman and Chief Steward of McLaughlin Rd. - Karen Thoburn and Stewards for Mary St. are Kevin Aibens, Angela Forman, Tanya Quackenbush, Jen Switzer, and Holly Shier. Stewards for McLaughlin Rd. are Amy Stewart, Leona MacCormack, and Ashley Lane. Our Health and safety Rep’s are Amy Jetten for Mary St. and Rose Watson for McLaughlin Rd. I want to welcome all old and new members to the 4422 Union Team; I look forward to working with you all and setting some wonderful goals for our productive Local!!
Hello there membership of Local 4422!!
I am happy to be remaining the Vice President for Mary St., I thank you all for your support once again, and I will try to do you all proud!! For those of who don’t know me, I stand firmly on Health and Safety issues within the workplace and I am a Health and Safety Activist proudly. I have extensive knowledge and training in Health and Safety and encourage any questions or concerns to be directed to your Health and safety Rep.’s for your location sites and if they can’t answer any questions I will be willing to help with any issues of concern. As some of you already know I am also very passionate about politics in relation to Health care for our elderly and the lack of government standards for staffing in our facilities.
Hello fellow members, I look forward to working for you as your Vice President. In the next few weeks, please look for the response to the letter that is circulating around our workplace. I will be posting McLaughlin Rd.’s monthly meetings on the union board to tell the time, dates and where they will be held.
On a health & safety note, come on out and join the joint health and safety committee and make a difference at your work site and importantly a healthier and safer workplace. (A reminder that your time on this committee is paid for by the company.)
What’s happening in Our Local?
· held elections for all local union positions for both sites
· celebrated April 28th day of Mourning by wearing yellow ribbons to show our recognition
· arbitration for Mary St. contract set for Sept.2008
· Established new Joint Health and Safety Committee’s at both sites and put “Terms of Reference” (which is how these committees function) on the table, management is now reviewing.
· Many new stewards were trained at Durham college this month in Effective Stewarding
· Line selections for Registered Staff at Mc Laughlin Rd. is still in discussion between the union and mgmt.
· Full time employees still needing a Benefit Booklet on your entitled benefits please see your Union Rep. for a copy and the phone number for your benefit company.
· Welcoming all new hires to the Union!!!
· CMI results are in, for McLaughlin Rd. 83.07 and for Mary St. 91.79, congratulations Nursing teams you have all worked hard!!! Now lets all ask management what is happening to this money???
Caregivers appeal directly to Premier: “It's Time to Care” — Give seniors 3.5 hours of hands-on careFebruary 27, 2008
TORONTO, Ont. – Caregivers at two Ontario nursing homes speaking at a Queen's Park media conference today, appealed directly to the Premier to enact a minimum 3.5 hours of personal care for residents in long-term care facilities.
Despite repeated promises by Ontario's health minister that hands-on care would be established months after new long-term care legislation passed (Bill 140), the McGuinty government has failed to act.
“I want to bring some humanity, joy and real care to residents. But we are so understaffed that I have to rush through my tasks, rush through feedings, rush through bathing and dressing. That's not the kind of care seniors should be receiving,” said Margaret Manning, a Personal Support Worker (PSW) at Vermont Square in Toronto.
Manning and Candace Rennick, a dietary aide from St. Joseph's at Fleming in Peterborough, gave a first-hand account of the challenges faced by nursing home staff trying to provide care to frail seniors under the current system, with no minimum standard of care. “With so few staff, residents wait for hours for breakfast, are put to bed too early at night, and many don't get enough walking and exercise. All the while caregivers are run off their feet trying to complete tasks,” said Rennick.
Study after study has shown that, without a staffing and care standard set out in law, the quality of care plummets. Front line nursing home staff report that residents are sitting in deplorable conditions. Incontinence products are often kept under lock-and-key, and many homes are directing staff to change residents only when the product is 75% soiled.
OFL President Wayne Samuelson again called for positive action on the issue of continence care policies and practices in long-term care homes. Government inaction “demonstrates a complete lack of respect for the very individuals that built our Province.” Further he said, “the solution to the issue requires regulating and enforcing minimum standards of staffing of 3.5 hours of care per resident per day. This will allow residents to receive the continence care that they need.”
Just before the October 2007 election, health minister George Smitherman said that legally binding minimum standards of care could be in place within three months of the next government taking office because of the Liberal legislation passed earlier in the year.We need 3.5 hours of care and dignity back for seniors in nursing homes.
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
McGuinty Government Eliminating Multi-Bed Wards Through Upgrades At Older Long-Term Care Homes Across Province
TORONTO, July 31 /CNW/ - The McGuinty government will be redeveloping
35,000 older long-term care beds over the next 10 years to ensure equitable
access to quality long-term care home accommodation, Health and Long-Term Care
Minister George Smitherman announced today.
"All long-term care home residents deserve to have access to the best
services and features our long-term care homes can offer," Smitherman said.
"We will be redeveloping our older long-term care homes to give residents a
higher quality of life in a more comfortable, home-like environment
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