Wage increases of an additional 3.75 per cent and 2.5 per cent over two years are coming for Ontario hospital workers, not including registered nurses.
That arbitration decision comes after a law known as Bill 124, which capped wage increases to one per cent a year for three years for broader public sector workers, was declared unconstitutional by an Ontario court.
The government has appealed that ruling, but in the meantime, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and the SEIU Healthcare union are the latest public sector unions to have successfully argued in arbitration for more money.
