About 15 arrived there this morning, the start of Nursing Week in the province. Their union, the Ontario Nurses Association, is citing the Windsor Regional cuts as among the most severe in the province, where 1,400 jobs have been lost since the start of 2015.
Karen Bertrand, an ONA vice president for the region that includes Windsor, said the nurses are attending Question Period this morning, when MPP Lisa Gretzky (NDP — Windsor West) is expected to ask about the job losses.
In the afternoon, they’ll be in the gallery watching as local MPPs Gretzky, Percy Hatfield (NDP — Windsor-Tecumseh) and Taras Natyshak (NDP — Essex) present the petition.
The 8,000 names are for the paper petition. Bertrand said an online petition, which can’t be presented in the legislature, has 17,000 names of people protesting the loss of jobs.
Earlier today, ONA joined with the NDP Leader Andrea Horwath in a news conference, where they called for an immediate moratorium on nursing cuts.
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