Abrupt closure of Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity in the runup to National Coming Out Day a painful loss for the queer community and an affront to workers

Solidarity

OTTAWA – For 19 years, the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) helped queer and trans youth find themselves, a sense of community, and safety. With the organization’s sudden bankruptcy announcement, that support is gone, passionate workers have been laid off, and queer and trans youth are left with one less advocate and…

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“This is why we are retiring in poverty:” Health care workers slam SickKids for choosing not to pay into pension plan for 26th year

OCHU, Solidarity

Toronto, ON – Health-care workers at SickKids Hospital in Toronto are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff. Last week, SickKids announced that it will not be paying into the staff pension plan for yet another year – it has only…

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Ford government’s new proposal for long-term care regulations will worsen staffing crisis & erode quality of care for residents, warns CUPE

Solidarity

The Ford government’s plan to permanently employ lower-trained workers to replace PSWs caring for increasingly vulnerable long-term care residents is fraught with risk, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The union is instead calling for a robust health care human resources strategy to recruit the tens of thousands of personal support workers required in…

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Ford government’s audit of child protection system another smokescreen to evade responsibility for mounting crisis in child protection sector

Solidarity

Many hundreds of young people in Ontario have been warehoused in hotels, motels, office buildings and worse because of an acute crisis of care the provincial government has manufactured. Four years into a “redesign” of the province’s children’s aid system with no progress to show for its efforts, it’s clear the announced audit is another…

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Giant Trojan Horse visits Queen’s Park as OCHU-CUPE and Ontario Health Coalition protest privatization of hospital services

Health Care, OCHU, Solidarity

In response to the government’s plan to issue new licenses to for-profit clinics this fall, OCHU and OHC are demanding that money be invested in public hospitals instead TORONTO – Symbolizing the threat of the plan to privatize hospital surgeries, a 15-foot replica of the Trojan Horse visited legislators at Queen’s Park today. The metaphor…

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