Our Vision for Long-Term Care

The Ontario Federation of Labour constitutes the largest provincial labour federation in Canada. The 700,000 members of the OFL are drawn from more than 1500 locals of 40 different unions. Our members work in all economic sectors and live in communities across Ontario, from Kenora to Cornwall and from Moosonee to Windsor.

Since our founding convention in March 1957, the OFL has consistently advocated for our vision of a universally accessible public health care system for all Ontarians.
Our vision for health care draws on the experiences of:

• Dedicated health care workers who provide needed services, and who are profoundly troubled by the misdirection of public policy and the failures of the institutions which employ them; and
• Workers and their families who in the past used or continue to use the services of Ontario’s health care system.

Our vision for health care is outlined in two recent OFL documents. The first of which is a major policy paper entitled Rebuilding Health Care (available on the OFL website).  It was developed with the valuable assistance of our affiliated unions in health care, discussed and endorsed by delegates at the last OFL convention in November 2005.