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March 28, 2022 09:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ford government plans unprecedented for-profit privatization of health care: Health Coalitions across the province hold summits to fight privatization and protect public health care services

TORONTO, March 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government is engaging in unprecedented health care privatization, says the Ontario Health Coalition. Recently, Health Minister Christine Elliott...
March 21, 2022 09:00 ET | Source: Ontario Health Coalition

Ford government plans unprecedented for-profit privatization of health care: Health Coalitions across the province hold summits to fight privatization and protect public health care services

TORONTO, March 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government is engaging in unprecedented health care privatization, says the Ontario Health Coalition. Recently, Health Minister Christine Elliott...
March 15, 2022 09:00 ET | Source: Ontario Federation of Labour

Conservative premiers will bring in American-style health care if we don’t stop them, say labour federation presidents

TORONTO, March 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The presidents of provincial labour federations are putting pressure on the federal government to step up their contributions to public health care and...
May 31, 2021 18:09 ET | Source: Ontario Federation of Labour

OFL: Ford’s Conservatives continue attacks on workers’ rights with extension of Reopening Ontario Act

TORONTO, May 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This afternoon, Ford’s Conservative government extended the Reopening Ontario Act until December 1, 2021. The Act gives Ford’s Conservative government...
July 30, 2020 19:32 ET | Source: UFCW Locals 175 & 633

Improvements to long-term care system long overdue: UFCW Locals 175 & 633 urges immediate action in addition to commission’s review

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, July 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following the Ontario government’s announcement of its commission and staffing study into the province’s long-term care homes, Locals 175...
July 22, 2020 10:27 ET | Source: Ontario Federation of Labour

Ford is using the health emergency to assault democracy with Bill 195, says OFL

TORONTO, July 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Federation of Labour is outraged by the anti-democratic, and unprecedented Bill 195 that has been rammed through the legislature by the Ford...