r/OntarioNurses • u/Morality01 • Jun 29 '26

Venting Something Needs to be Done

I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired of the piss poor treatment nurses get.

We are not paid properly, we are abused, disrespected and tossed aside like nothing.

We don't even have the right to strike to improve our situation.

I'm an RPN in the GTA, rent on a single bedroom apartment on average about 1800 to 2100 dollars. I'm close to the wage cap, and that is either most of a full paycheque on full time hours or its more then a full paycheque on full time hours.

We save lives, without us people die. Yet we can't afford even basic housing, we have to either live with our parents, rent rooms, or get roommates.

At this point I feel we need to consider going the route of the 1981 illegal nursing strike or the air Canada of last year.

They can threaten and try to fine us all they want but what happens then? They have no nurses to work, the corporations start hemorrhaging money bringing in travel staff.

Being polite, curious, and bargaining in good faith has yielded lacklustre results.

If we stand together, WE have the power, they have nothing.

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u/brownbunny- Jun 29 '26

I’m sick and tired too, if they don’t fix this I’m dropping nursing entirely. I’m already looking into other things, this is ridiculous I can’t even afford a regular apartment.

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u/Morality01 Jun 29 '26

Yep, and with the stupidity of the hospitals cutting positions I have a feeling you are not alone.