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[caption id="attachment_3622" align="alignright" width="300"] CUPE was joined by many other unions and members of the community at Grace Hospital[/caption]
Health care support workers held coordinated noon-hour information pickets on July 18 at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg and Middlechurch Home in West St. Paul Manitoba, to protest against the provincial governments cuts and changes to health care.
The WRHA has once again announced a slew of cuts to patient care and privatization of services that will directly affect Manitobans and the front-line health care workers who provide the services.
Today’s WRHA announcement cuts deeper than before, with whole clinics being shut down, and promises to reduce staffing levels in WRHA facilities.
CUPE members were out en-force on July 6, protesting the Manitoba government's cuts to health care.
"Employees at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) and CancerCare Manitoba are overworked, understaffed, and deeply concerned with the Pallister government’s massive changes to health care" said CUPE Local 1550, representing support staff at HSC and CancerCare Manitoba.
Today CUPE, through the Manitoba Federation of Labour’s Partnership to Defend Public Services filed a court injunction to the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench against Pallister’s Bill 28, the “Public Services Sustainability Act”.
[caption id="attachment_3588" align="alignright" width="300"] Terry Egan (second, back row) with other labour leaders.[/caption]
Bill 28 is also known widely as the public sector wage freeze bill.
Today the Manitoba government announced the opening of a request for proposals for Social Impact Bonds, a scheme in which private companies profit off social service delivery.
“There was a time when the private sector would simply make philanthropic donations as part of their corporate responsibility to the community” says Terry Egan, President of CUPE Manitoba.
Via Manitoba Federation of Labour
Today the Partnership to Defend Public Services, representing more than 110,000
Manitoba workers, filed for an injunction against the so-called Public Services Sustainability Act,
recently passed by the Pallister government.
"The Pallister government has passed a new law that fundamentally undermines collective bargaining
rights. It's unfair and it's unconstitutional," said Manitoba Federation of Labour President Kevin Rebeck,
on behalf of the Partnership.
Today the Minister of Health has once again announced major changes to Manitoba’s health care system. These changes will cause greater confusion and frustration within the health care system which is already facing government cuts and restructuring.
“Pallister is already assaulting our ERs, Urgent Care centres, and other hospital programs in Winnipeg, and now he wants to restructure the system province-wide?
Brandon, MB – CUPE Local 737, representing school support workers at Brandon School Division will be hosting a public town hall meeting to raise red flags over the provincial government’s plan to build a new school in Brandon using a Public Private Partnership (P3) model.
“When the Premier announced the new school, he said that P3 schools were successful across the country” said Jamie Rose, President of CUPE 737.
WINNIPEG – The Canadian Union of Public Employees remains opposed to the sweeping changes to Winnipeg’s health
care services announced by the WRHA in April 2017. These changes included the closure of community ERs, Urgent Care, as well as the shuffling of community-based mental health programs.
Today’s WRHA announcement that identifies the timelines in which these changes are to be made is troubling.
Winnipeg – CUPE Local 500 members from across City of Winnipeg departments voted 85% in favour of a strike mandate at a meeting held on June 7, 2017. Nearly 80% of eligible voters cast their ballots in an overwhelming show of support for the bargaining committee.
“The CUPE Local 500 bargaining committee takes this direction from our members seriously” said Gord Delbridge, President of CUPE 500.