OCHU

Letter to all Local Presidents:

July 22, 2010

Dear Sisters & Brothers
RE: Wage Freeze Special Conference

There will be a one day conference August 10,2010 @10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Intercontinental Hotel 220 Bloor Street West Toronto. No charge for registration.

A block of rooms have been set aside @ the Intercontinental (416) 960-5200 for Monday and Tuesday August 9th & 10th. The rate is $159.00 single or double. Please indentify you are with” OCHU” Ontario Council Hospital Union or Block code # FG3

The purpose of the conference is to discuss/debate an action plan to protect our members from this wage freeze policy. We need your help and support.

Please Attend!

Enclosed in this package are registration forms. While there is no cost to register it is important that you send in the attached registration form for voting purposes.

Newsletters that will be sent in a separate package - It is critical you circulate them to your membership.

Yours in solidarity,

Michael Hurley Helen Fetterly
President Secretary-Treasurer

* do not book hotel rooms until after 4pm on Friday July 23.

** the cut off date for room bookings is August 6th.

Poverty and the Provincial Budget

Health, Jobs, and Resistance

The McGuinty government will release Ontario's 2010 budget on March 25th.
Even before the predicted cuts to public services, poor and working people are
being forced to endure the devastating brunt of the recession. From piecemeal
job cuts to impudent attacks on social programs, provincial policies are already
starving Ontario families.

We should be outraged, but we shouldn't be surprised; attacks against poor
people are standard fare in Ontario. In previous decades, grassroots movements
have responded to such attacks with mass mobilization. Join us to discuss
what we can do now.

Tuesday, April 6
7pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor St. West, Room 5260

Featuring:

John Clarke, Organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.

Michael Hurley, President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
and Vice-President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ontario.

Dr. Roland Wong, Occupational and Community Medicine Physician.

AnnouncingThe Launch of the Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms, Health Under Capitalism.

A benefit for the Ontario Health Coalition
http://www.web.net/ohc/

A panel discussion with
contrbuting authors:
Colin Leys ('Health, health care and capitalism')
Pat Armstrong ('Contradictions at work: struggles for control in Canadian health care')
Roddy Loepky ('Certain wealth: Accumulation in the health industry')

and commentators:
Natalie Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition
Dr Andy Coates, Physicians for a National Health Program, Co-Chair, Single Payer New York

chaired by Leo Panitch, Co-editor of the Socialist Register, CRC, Political Science at York University.

Thursday January 21, 2010
7:30 PM
Annex Live,
296 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
(416) 929-399
www.theannexlive.com
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