Library workers to ask ‘Public Library Board of the Year Award’ winner to keep Windsor libraries open

Municipal

WINDSOR, ON – Frontline Windsor library workers are staging an information picket, Tuesday, March 22, to ask the Windsor Library Board to keep libraries open by negotiating a fair contract and avoid the possible shut down of Windsor libraries, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing 62 library workers. “Our members and our…

Toronto experience challenges Pembroke Regional Hospital’s contracting sterilization of surgical instruments

Health Care

PEMBROKE, ON — CUPE asked today why at least one major institution representing 3 large Toronto hospitals has ended its contract with the company that reprocesses and sterilizes its surgical instruments over quality issues, but Pembroke Regional Hospital would sign a 5 year contract with the same company? After 4 years, Trillium Health Partners, with…