Hamilton Health Sciences

And we know that if funding is not keeping pace, they are having to make cuts.

And right now we're seeing at, at McMaster, in, uh, in, um, uh, in Hamilton, we're seeing at Hamilton Health Sciences, uh, we are seeing significant cuts to frontline healthcare providers there.

This is only going to put greater pressure on those public hospitals and make it more difficult for them to deliver, um, faster access to surgeries and medical imaging.

Uh, again, many hospitals across the province don't have the funding to be able to staff their MRI machines, uh, into evenings, um, run them twenty-four seven, run them on weekends.

And we have interviews with Ron Wells, president of Steelworkers Local 1005, Stoke of Steel in Hamilton.

And Jillian Watt, she's president of QP7800, representing healthcare workers in the city at the Hamilton Health Sciences Association.

And she represents some of the workers at the biggest hospitals and cancer care centers in the Hilton area.

Ron and Jillian are going to help us understand the cause and context of those layoffs, but also how the city's labor movement is coming together.

So again, something to follow, something to think about.

So let's take a quick break and come back with Jillian Watt, president of CUPE Local 7800, and Ron Wells, president of CUPE 1005, talking about those big layoffs at Hamilton's Stelco Steel and its area hospitals.

And keeping in mind that, in fact, there's also a large local strike going on from a national steel car in Hamilton, which is kind of part of the context of the Hamilton Area Labor Council you know, kind of organizing and getting people together to think about, you know, how do we deal with job loss at the iconic Stoke of Steel mills or for our community at the Hamilton Health Sciences healthcare centers.

So interesting story.

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