Tag: Save public healthcare

• Fighting for Public Health Care: Ontario Health Coalition Assembly Mobilizes for Action

  By Wendy Lee, Local 575, inSolidarity Access to primary health care in Ontario is reaching crisis levels. The struggle to find a family doctor has become a harsh reality for many, as evidenced by desperate scenes like the one in Walkerton, Ontario, where 1,000 residents braved frigid temperatures in the hopes of securing one of…

  February 10, 2025

  Campaigns, Media

  Fighting Privatization, Save public healthcare

• Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Thunder Bay

  Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…

  November 14, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Events

  Save public healthcare

• Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: London

  Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…

  November 14, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Events

  Save public healthcare

• Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Windsor

  Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…

  November 14, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Events

  Save public healthcare

• Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Kingston

  Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…

  November 14, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Events

  Save public healthcare

• Hospital Professionals Public Healthcare Town Hall: Ottawa

  Ontario’s public hospitals need better from our government, now. Hospital professionals are uniting with our communities to demand better. Have you had to wait weeks or months for critical lab results? Has your quality of life been affected by not receiving physio or radiation therapy in time? Has your physical and/or mental health suffered while…

  November 8, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Events

  Save public healthcare

• Health Professionals Week 2024: “We are the backbone of health care!”

  During Health Professionals Week, we celebrate the specialized care that our growing membership of health care professionals in OPSEU/SEFPO’s Hospital Professionals Division (HPD) provide every day for patients in Ontario’s hospitals. HPD members work at 84 hospitals across the province, providing diagnostics, rehabilitation and therapies in more than 250 health professions. Our members are at…

  Andy Pedersen

  June 21, 2024

  Campaigns, Events

  Awareness Days, Fighting Privatization, Save public healthcare

• Community and union leaders announce legal action, demand Ford declare a moratorium to save the Durham hospital

  OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick joined labour and community allies today for a news conference at Queen’s Park to save the Durham hospital, located in Grey County, and to support the call for a moratorium on hospital closures. The following news release was distributed by the Ontario Health Coalition: Toronto, Grey Bruce – The Durham hospital,…

  May 23, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns, Media

  Fighting Privatization, Media release, Ontario Health Coalition, Save public healthcare, Solidarity

• Make Hamilton a No Paid-Plasma Zone!

  Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath wants to make Hamilton a “No Paid-Plasma Zone” and you can help! If you live in Hamilton, click here and fill out your name, email, and postal code, and we’ll send your Hamilton City Councillor an email letting them know the safety and dignity of people is always more important than profiteers’ money-grubbing.…

  April 19, 2024

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  No Paid Plasma, Save public healthcare, Solidarity

• Thunder Bay hospital staff to rally against Ford’s plan to privatize hospital services

  Front-line nurses, medical lab technologists, health-care aides, cleaners, clerical and other hospital staff from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre will rally to stop Doug Ford’s plan to contract out hospital surgeries and diagnostic procedures to private clinics. When: July 4, 11am – 1pm Where: Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, 1004 Oliver Road, Thunder…

  Andy Pedersen

  June 29, 2023

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Fighting Privatization, Save public healthcare

• OPSEU/SEFPO launches ad campaign to save public healthcare!

  There’s no sugar-coating it: Public healthcare is in imminent danger. That’s why we’ve launched a new campaign to help save it. What were once warning signs have become full-fledged realities. The Ontario government is actively promoting for-profit healthcare while dismantling the publicly funded system we all depend on. Vulnerable people from across the province are…

  May 29, 2023

  Bargaining, Campaigns

  Save public healthcare

• Court ruling in BC a timely reminder of the value of public healthcare in Ontario

  In an overwhelming victory for Canada’s public healthcare system, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled in September that laws limiting two-tier healthcare in Canada do not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This case, brought forward by Dr. Brian Day and his affiliates, lasted for over ten years and fought to undermine…

  Andy Pedersen

  October 30, 2020

  Campaigns

  Legal, Save public healthcare

• World Blood Donor Day: taking stock of our history, fighting for a better future

  Each year on June 14, World Blood Donor Day is celebrated around the globe. World Blood Donor Day is not only an opportunity to encourage Ontarians to donate blood, it is an opportunity to discuss the importance of having a fully public blood system, where safety is top priority. It is an opportunity to honour…

  June 14, 2018

  Campaigns, Equity and Human Rights

  No Paid Plasma, Save public healthcare