Fighting Privatization

Ottawa – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO), the National Union for Public and General Employees (NUPGE), and BloodWatch.org are raising the alarm on secret plans to privatize plasma collection in Canada. The organizations held a protest today outside Canadian Blood Services (CBS) headquarters to demand the resignation of its CEO and Board Chair, in...

Together with representatives from NUPGE, Bloodwatch.org, CUPE, and the Canadian Health Coalition, the Sector 19 (Canadian Blood Services and Diagnostics) Divisional Executive will hold an information picket outside the CBS head office in Ottawa on December 1. The picket will protest an agreement that CBS has signed with a for-profit, multinational pharmaceutical company (Grifols) to...

TORONTO – Hospital professionals represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) are calling for the Ford government to take immediate action on the hospital staffing crisis by looking at solutions from within the public hospital system, rather than siphon resources to private clinics and for-profit corporations. Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) First...