It wasn’t long ago that politicians were lining up to give praise to health care workers. Indeed, these workers have been at the very front lines of this pandemic, seeing and experiencing firsthand the horrors of this disease.

In April, Doug Ford claimed it was the nurses and health care workers that deserved the accolades instead of himself. That’s all fine and well, but Ford’s actions don’t back up his words.

At the same time, the Ontario government was instituting emergency orders that eroded the workplace rights of health care workers. Unions objected, but their warnings were ignored. After months of sacrifice, health care workers are being rewarded with an even more brazen attack on their worker rights. A new bill being fast-tracked by Ford’s government will see health care workers stripped of “their vacation rights, their leave of absence rights, their seniority rights, [and] their health and safety rights.”

Source: Ford is repaying health workers by stabbing them in the back.