Community Health workers in Toronto at Sherbourne Health Centre ratify a three agreement, avoiding strike action and achieving significant wage increases and improvements to language.
After a difficult set of negotiations with a strong strike mandate in place, the HOPE Sector members at Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto ratified a new three-year agreement on June 26, 2025.
The wages for these community health workers will increase by 12% over the term of the agreement for all classifications retroactive to the date of expiry.
Benefit improvements will see an increase in the Health Spending Account from $400.00 to $600.00.
Language improvements include:
- Additional float day bringing them to a total of five days per year.
- Severance language improves from a maximum of 26 weeks to 30 weeks.
- Daily maximum for meal expenses/per diem will be $80.00 in total rather than having a separate per diem for each meal.
- “Chosen family” will be added to bereavement language. Prior to this round of bargaining the employer had the sole discretion to honour a chosen family member for paid bereavement. This is now a negotiated entitlement in the contract language.
Union negotiating committee: Sandra Jackson, Keaton Kwok and Maureen Noonan. Union representative: Sabrina Qadir.
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Read more Negotiation Updates from the Local 175 HOPE Sector! What’s HOPE? It stands for Health, Office & Professional Employees.