{"id":2671,"date":"2015-02-05T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:18:33","slug":"while-ontario-liberals-cut-health-funding-we-need-to-support-home-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/while-ontario-liberals-cut-health-funding-we-need-to-support-home-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"While Ontario Liberals cut health funding, we need to support home care workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(February 5, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>By Jesse McLaren, rabble.ca<\/p>\n<p>While the Ontario government cuts hospitals and downloads care onto the community, and Community Care Access Centre CEOs give themselves hefty pay hikes, both have forced frontline health workers onto cold picket lines to fight a wage freeze.<br \/>\n<strong>Cutting and privatizing healthcare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years the Ontario Liberals have cut healthcare and closed hospitals, including five planned hospital closures in Niagara. According to the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ontario Health Coalition<\/a><\/span>, &#8220;For the last seven consecutive Ontario budgets, public hospitals have faced real dollar cuts to global budgets. Ontario now funds its hospitals at among the lowest rates in Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/rabble.ca\/blogs\/bloggers\/jesse\/2015\/02\/while-ontatrio-liberals-cut-health-funding-we-need-to-support-home-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(February 5, 2015) By Jesse McLaren, rabble.ca While the Ontario government cuts hospitals and downloads care onto the community, and Community Care Access Centre CEOs give themselves hefty pay hikes, both have forced frontline health workers onto cold picket lines to fight a wage freeze. Cutting and privatizing healthcare For years the Ontario Liberals have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ohc-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>While Ontario Liberals cut health funding, we need to support home care workers - Ontario Health Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(February 5, 2015) By Jesse McLaren, rabble.ca While the Ontario government cuts hospitals and downloads care onto the community, and Community Care\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/while-ontario-liberals-cut-health-funding-we-need-to-support-home-care-workers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"While Ontario Liberals cut health funding, we need to support home care workers - 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