Public is Better

Algoma University (AU), a public institution, has offered a Graduate Certificate in Project Management since 2021, with AU faculty designing and delivering the certificate’s courses. Beginning in Fall 2023, AU management has transferred course design and delivery responsibilities for this certificate to Yorkville University, a private, for-profit university with non-unionized faculty who will be paid...

As part of the No Paid Plasma campaign we have developed a resolution that you can take to your own local city council and encourage them to declare their city a “No Paid Plasma Zone!” The resolution is rooted in the principles of voluntary, non-remunerated blood and plasma donation, as recommended by the World Health...

  Dozens of Canadian Blood Services workers demonstrated outside the CBS Brampton Collection and Processing site in Brampton on May 24th this week to demand respect, better wages and an end to the privatization of blood plasma collection. The rally also drew support from Ontario Health Coalition’s Brampton chapter, labour council retirees, and other OPSEU/SEFPO...