There should be about 900 more staff at Windsor hospitals according to the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of CUPE.
OCHU president Michael Hurley says local hospitals have shortfalls of 234 nurses and nearly 700 support staff because of a $75-million a year funding gap in Windsor.
"A hospital system with about 40% fewer beds compared to the rest of the country is a thread bare system," says Hurley.
He says the provincial government created its own revenue crisis people are paying for now.
"Cuts to the hospital budgets really accelerated when Ontario made a decision to bring its level of corporate taxes to the lowest level in North America," says Hurley. "They overreached with that."
Hurley was in Windsor and London on Thursday part of a campaign by the OCHU calling on the province to correct the underfunding of hospitals it puts at $4.8-billion.
