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Corporations Out of Health Care

Profit does not have a place in Ontario health care. OCHU has long since argued against contracting-out health care work to for-profit corporations and businesses. Paying for profit is a waste of tax-payers' dollars and usually contributes to poor health care quality which is dangerous to the public and to workers. Little training, few supplies, feeling rushed, high staff turnover, high staff injury rates, little team work and poor working conditions are often the problems of working for health care corporations.

Corporations Out of Health Care
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Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre have announced plans to contract out surgical preparation and delivery to SteriPro, a major British healthcare corporation. The hospitals have notified the union that this will occur in November 2011.
The hospitals believe that they can significantly cut the number of staff employed in the affected departments and have offered retirement packages to encourage people to leave. Our lawyers believe that the hospitals are violating our collective agreements. We have filed grievances and arbitration is scheduled to take place in September 2011

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