Fighting Privatization

TORONTO – Members of OPSEU/SEFPO’s Liquor Board Employees Division (LBED) rallied inside an LCBO store in downtown Toronto today to draw attention to their demands for fair wages, more full-time jobs, and an end to the Ford government’s privatization of alcohol sales. Participants of the peaceful rally held placards and balloons and handed out flyers...

Please join your Sector 19 Executive and CBS Bargaining Teams from across the province to discuss where each of our CBS unit are in the bargaining cycle, and also to discuss for-profit paid plasma collection in Ontario. Collectively all CBS Bargaining units need to come together to save our public voluntary blood system. Privatized Plasma...

Toronto – The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) and BloodWatch.org are calling on the provincial government to investigate the terms of an undisclosed agreement between Canadian Blood Services (CBS) and the multi-national pharmaceutical giant Grifols. Their call is supported by MPP France Gélinas, the NDP health critic.   The agreement could violate the Voluntary Blood Donations...