Tag: We Own It
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Toronto Community Forum: Protecting Public Services from Privatization
A strong public sector keeps our communities healthy, safe and prosperous. But the privatization of hydro, highways, and community services is putting our communities at risk. The good news is that with your help, we can stop privatization! Join us at our Toronto Community Forum on Protecting Public Services from Privatization. Featuring speakers: Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida, OPSEU First…
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Mississauga Community Forum: Protecting Public Services from Privatization
A strong public sector keeps our communities healthy, safe and prosperous. But the privatization of hydro, highways, and community services is putting our communities at risk. The good news is that with your help, we can stop privatization! Join us at our Mississauga Community Forum on Protecting Public Services from Privatization. Featuring speakers: Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU President…
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Kingston Community Forum: Protecting Public Services from Privatization
A strong public sector keeps our communities healthy, safe and prosperous. But the privatization of hydro, highways, and community services is putting our communities at risk. The good news is that with your help, we can stop privatization! Join us at our Public Town Hall on Protecting Public Services from Privatization. Speakers will include: OPSEU President Warren (Smokey)…
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Belle River Community Meeting: Make our ServiceOntario public!
Special guest speaker: MPP Taras Natyshak Moderator: Len Elliott, OPSEU Region 1 Vice President Community guest speakers to be announced. St. Simon and St. Jude Hall, 267 Meunier Street, Belle River, Ontario Belle River's privatized ServiceOntario office closed in January. It's the second time in four years that the office has changed ownership. This cannot…
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Privatization drives rising tuition: We Own It
As Premier Kathleen Wynne visited North Bay Wednesday, OPSEU member and We Own It mobilizer Catherine Saulino was interviewed by CTV about the role privatization plays in rising tuition fees. Watch the full coverage here. Related: OPSEU in the News
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We Own It is building a bigger tent
Dear friends, It isn't every day that an issue comes along with the power to unite communities across the province. I'm talking about the Ontario government's plan to quietly auction off public assets and services we all depend on, like highways, hospitals and hydro. Our mobilizers heard from dozens of diverse communities across Ontario that…
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Call for members of Equity Mobilizing Team
The OPSEU We Own It campaign is inviting OPSEU members from equity-seeking groups to apply for a position on the Equity Mobilizing Team. The successful applicants will be on full-time book-off from February 1 to Convention 2017. Members will be reimbursed for work time, travel and other expenses. All interested members must send a Statement of Interest…
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New Year’s resolutions for Ontario’s party leaders
Here’s a thought for our political leaders as they set their 2017 goals: Ontario needs a working class hero and you could be it. It will take some real will power to dismiss special interests to get this done. Which of the three leaders has it in them? Will it be Premier Kathleen Wynne or…
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Group aims at handing over a bunch of letters to David Orazietti
Sault Online featured an article this week about the letter-writing event being organized by We Own It member mobilizer Carole Gregorcic. “Rising hydro rates are forcing more and more people in our community to choose between heating and eating,” Gregorcic, is quoted as saying. “So we’re holding an event called ‘Winter Warm Up’ where citizens…
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The forgotten coalition of Ontarians
How many of the Ontario Liberal’s millionaire and billionaire friends cared about what Ontario’s Auditor General reported last week? Read OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas's latest article in the Toronto Sun. Related: OPSEU in the News
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Auditor General’s report: privatization fails Ontario – again
Toronto – Wednesday’s report from Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk shows once again that the provincial Liberal government’s “core policy” is failing Ontarians, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says. “Everyone looking at the Auditor’s report can see that privatization is failing utterly to deliver good value for money,” Warren (Smokey) Thomas…
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We Own It! video challenges privatization
OPSEU has released a short video about We Own It!, the union's long-term campaign to protect Ontario's public services from privatization. Passed during OPSEU's Convention in April 2016, the campaign aims to "fight privatization in this province by shifting public opinion and ensuring that no party that supports privatization can get elected in Ontario." Some…
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Thomas joins Grey-Bruce Labour Council to honour local activists
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas joined members of the Grey-Bruce Labour Council to honour the work of local activists at the annual Activist Dinner Monday night. In a wide-ranging keynote address, Thomas spoke about the important work of labour unions and their activists in winning rights for workers, highlighting the recent pay equity settlement at…