United Health Care Workers of Ontario advocates for the right of workers to make their own medical decisions and stands in defence of Ontario's health system.
UHCWO is a wholly volunteer run not for profit organization advocating for health care workers terminated from their jobs due to the ongoing covid-19 mandates. Please visit https://t.co/buzn7Imkuf and consider donating to support our operating costs and legal initiatives.
Attn: physicians, medical residents/fellows and medical students. Join us!
My friend and colleague Dr. @AaronKheriatyMD has co-founded the Hippocratic Society uniting a community of physicians and medical trainees worldwide in seeking to live up to our healing profession's Hippocratic principle of "first, do no harm" and protect physicians' freedom of conscience and speech. The Hippocratic Society started with chapters in the US and has now expanded to Canada with chapters so far in Toronto and Calgary.
If you would like to join an existing chapter, start your own local chapter or learn more: please visit the website link below https://t.co/bImRC7KKXg
UHCWO is a wholly volunteer run not for profit organization advocating for health care workers terminated from their jobs due to the ongoing covid-19 mandates. Please visit https://t.co/buzn7Imkuf and consider donating to support our operating costs and legal initiatives.
Their Own Data Just Ended the Mandate Narrative
A statistical kill-shot: “The evidentiary standard wasn’t bent. It was abandoned. This isn’t interpretation. It’s their data, their caveats, their footnotes.”
https://t.co/fwhouNBK0s
A systematic dismantling of every major piece of evidence used to justify Canada’s 2021–22 COVID vaccine mandates and travel restrictions.
ROBUST. DAMNING. DEFINITIVE.
Preprint (SocArXiv/OSF): https://t.co/JjAAM4ohSK
Independent & unfunded → https://t.co/0Scb8kdl5J
#FismansFraud #PHOFiles #PHACFiles
BREAKING NEWS!!
We are headed to B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver in less than a week!
BC’s last chance to force accountability on the government and Bonnie Henry.
This will be ten more days of Certification Hearing for the Class Action lawsuit.
PLEASE donate or email us words of support 🙏
https://t.co/cctAqISCbw
As our BC colleagues and friends stand on the threshold of this historic decision, our hearts are full—of gratitude, of resolve, and of unbreakable hope.
With deepest gratitude and solidarity,
The entire UHCWO team stands with you UHCWBC
BREAKING NEWS!!
We are headed to B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver in less than a week!
BC’s last chance to force accountability on the government and Bonnie Henry.
This will be ten more days of Certification Hearing for the Class Action lawsuit.
PLEASE donate or email us words of support 🙏
https://t.co/cctAqISCbw
@kcpollock 1/2 @kcpollock It’s devastating that you have been catastrophically injured without ever receiving informed consent. A committed group of ethical healthcare workers petitioned the gov’t for a clear safety risk statement to be included for the COVID-19 vaccine —every patient
A $170 million class action lawsuit, led by nurse Lisa Wolfs and the United Health Care Workers of Ontario (@uhcwo), targets the Ontario government and Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore, in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
The lawsuit focuses on Directive 6 – a vaccine mandate implemented in 2021 – which compelled healthcare workers to vaccinate, disclose medical status, or face termination. The lawsuit argues against this directive as a violation of individual rights, informed consent, and privacy, seeking justice for thousands of workers while aiming to deter future coercive policies.
The suit alleges negligence, misfeasance in public office, tortious inducement to breach contract, and privacy violations, seeking $170 million in damages: $50 million for pain and suffering, $50 million for misfeasance, $20 million for breach of contract, and $50 million in punitive damages.
Lead plaintiff Lisa Wolfs, a nurse educator with 16 years of exemplary experience, was fired in August 2022 from London Health Sciences Centre for refusing vaccination. She claims the mandate breached her employment contract.
Central to the case is Health Canada’s vaccine monographs (inserts) for Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax, which do include claims of preventing Covid-19 transmission, contradicting the government’s justification that mandates ensured workplace safety. The lawsuit cites the absence of long-term safety data in 2021 and references a 2024 Brazilian study suggesting doubled long-term mortality risks for vaccinated individuals. These points fuel claims that Dr. Moore acted recklessly, coercing workers into medical interventions without robust evidence while undermining informed consent—a bedrock of medical ethics.
The UHCWO champions the lawsuit as a defense of healthcare workers’ autonomy. “These mandates stripped away the right to make personal medical choices,” said a UHCWO spokesperson. “Evidence that vaccines didn’t stop transmission and carried risks was ignored, punishing workers for prioritizing bodily autonomy.”
The case addresses forced medical disclosures, privacy violations, and the economic and emotional harm from terminations, unpaid leaves, and coerced retirements.
At this time, the lawsuit awaits class action certification, a lengthy but important first step. Once certified, it could encompass “thousands or tens of thousands” of unionized healthcare workers—vaccinated or not—affected by Directive 6.
In preparation, the UHCWO is crowdfunding to cover potential court costs, protecting Wolfs and other plaintiffs from financial risk. The UHCWO calls on workers to join the class action and support crowdfunding at https://t.co/OCZgnZod31. “This fight ensures no worker faces such coercion again,” the spokesperson said.
This lawsuit aligns fully with the multitude of other cases we’ve seen recently. However, the focused arguments of this case enhance its prospects and provide hope for setting a precedent for future workplace mandates, in favour of the safety and security of the individual rights of each employee.
Canadians are finding their outrage and applying it as fuel to their voices against the erosion of their rights. We stand with all who do, and look forward to the momentum of truth and support for our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
To read the Statement of Claim, click the link; https://t.co/iJpFPme6cu
To read more from the United Healthcare Workers of Ontario and visit their website, click the link; https://t.co/GAOjYeIA2A
There were, I think, tens of thousands of cases like this. Not enough lawyers or judges to process the unprecedented steamrolling over human rights. It will require provincial statutory reform to rectify; federal reform for the wrongful deprivation of Employment Insurance.
“It isn’t about health, and it sure doesn’t care”: a qualitative exploration of healthcare workers’ lived experience of the policy of vaccination mandates in Ontario, Canada
https://t.co/jBDHvFEmop
COVID-19 vaccination decisions and the impact of vaccination mandates: An exploratory cross-sectional survey of healthcare workers in British Columbia, Canada
https://t.co/1SFRUzDpao