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Jillian Watt
CUPE Local 7800
Critic
President of CUPE Local 7800, which represents about 4,750 workers at Hamilton Health Sciences.
Connected Scandals
Critic
The Ford government broke its 2018 promise that "not a single person will lose their job" — eliminating hundreds of health-care positions in 2019 and setting a funding path that Ontario's own Financial Accountability Office projects will cut over 9,000 nurse and PSW positions by 2027-28, in the middle of a nursing shortage already driving emergency room closures across the province.
Responding to Hamilton Health Sciences' plan to cut 413 jobs (September 2026), Watt said the cuts "will result in pain and suffering in the form of longer wait-times, overcrowded hospitals" (CBC) and told the Hamilton Spectator: "It's terrifying."