Lifelabs

Workplace by workplace, LifeLabs workers across Ontario continue to vote strongly in favour of joining OPSEU/SEFPO. The latest group is in Thunder Bay: roughly 50 patient techs and lab workers who’ve had enough of dangerous understaffing and destructive levels of forced overtime. “To our newest members at LifeLabs: we see you. We see your professionalism....

LifeLabs couriers in Kitchener, Thorold, and Brantford are the latest workers at the pension-owned, private lab company to vote overwhelmingly in favour of joining OPSEU/SEFPO. “These couriers are simply the life-blood of our health care system. They deserve all the safety and protections that come with joining a strong union like ours,” said OPSEU/SEFPO President...

Couriers, mail room clerks and dispatchers based in Mississauga cast their ballots on whether to unionize in the spring. However procedural wranglings at the Ontario Labour Relations Board prevented their certification from being officially awarded until Nov. 27, 2020. “Congratulations and welcome to our great union,” said OPSEU/SEFPO President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. “With hundreds of...

TORONTO – OPSEU is demanding that CEO Charles Brown and the entire executive team at LifeLabs be held to account after a series of mistakes and missteps – the latest being its clumsy attempt to fire a 35-year lab technician who is trying to organize her co-workers into a union. The Ontario Labour Relations Board...

Toronto – OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas is calling for the CEO of LifeLabs to be fired over his dismal performance. “The revelation this week that hackers may have obtained access to the personal information of some 15 million Canadians is yet another reason why CEO Charles Brown should go,” said Thomas. “It’s time to...

OPSEU’s leaders are congratulating LifeLabs workers in the Simcoe area for fending off a series of boss-backed attempts to break their union solidarity. “On behalf of your fellow 165,000 OPSEU members, congratulations! These are huge wins for you, and for every LifeLabs worker across the province,” said OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. “From the moment...

Barrie – Seventy-five LifeLabs employees who work as lab technologists, technicians, assistants, phlebotomists (blood collectors), and support staff in north Simcoe County have voted to join the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). They work out of 11 locations, including Barrie, Orillia, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Stayner, and CFB Borden. “During our organizing drive, it became...