Canadian Mental Health Association - Cochrane Timiskaming

Timmins, ON— Workers locked out by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Cochrane-Timiskaming, members of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 631, will be holding a rally this Friday outside Timmins MPP George Pirie’s office to demand a fair deal and an end to the lockout. These workers are on the frontlines of the opioid crisis, which has overwhelmed...

Timmins, ON – OPSEU/SEFPO has been notified that on Tuesday, February 13 at 12:01 a.m., the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Cochrane-Timiskaming will lock out its workers who provide life-saving mental health and addictions support in several northern Ontario communities. OPSEU/SEFPO, the union representing members of Local 631 at the CMHA, says lives are at...

The union representing over 7,000 mental health care workers is calling on the province to help end “an epidemic of violence” that has caused workplace stress to skyrocket and is sending injured workers to hospital on a regular basis. “Mental health facilities and community agencies are not doing nearly enough to protect their employees from...