For-profit staffing agency costs rose by 168 per cent for Central East region hospitals in Ontario over 10 years

Health Care, Solidarity

Peterborough, ON – A new research report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives recommends Ontario make significant increases in hospital funding while phasing out costly for-profit staffing agencies and making investments in preventative health care. The report Hollowed Out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies shows a co-relation between the…

Pre-budget poll shows Ontarians expect government to defend jobs by investing in public services

Solidarity

TORONTO – In the run-up to the provincial budget, CUPE Ontario commissioned a public opinion poll to gauge Ontarians’ attitudes toward taxation, funding for public services, health-care privatization, and job creation, as well as specifics about recent decisions of the Ford Conservatives. “Doug Ford and his Conservatives like to say that they’re ‘for the people’…