Volume 22, Issue 4, November 2020
In this issue we remember Jim Loftus, Charles Hawkes continues his report on the crisis in long term care homes, John Sewell talks about the Charter City, and much, much more…
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In this issue we remember Jim Loftus, Charles Hawkes continues his report on the crisis in long term care homes, John Sewell talks about the Charter City, and much, much more…
This report on OSSTF and ARM political action was submitted at the meeting of the ARM Ch. 12 Executive meeting on November 11, 2020.
A number of family members and their lawyers were among those cut from the hearings, as the Ford government has limited the hearings to one part-day meaning that there are only 15 spaces for people to be heard.
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On October 21, 2020 ARM Chapter 12 hosted a presentation in which former mayor of Toronto, John Sewell spoke of the need for a Charter City.
REG 274 was introduced by the previous Liberal government to strengthen seniority provisions and equity practices in local collective agreements.
The Ontario Health Coalition hosts a briefing on Long Term Care funding and Covid spread
The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) is a federal crown corporation established in 1999 to invest the pension funds of federal public service workers…Since its acquisition in 2006, PSP has owned and operated the second-largest for-profit Long Term Care company in the country under the name ‘Revera’.
“I am writing to you regarding your government’s announcement of an independent commission into COVID-19 and long-term care on behalf of the members of the Hamilton, Burlington and Oakville Chapter of the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada [HBO CURC].”
Malcom Buchanan is a former President of OSSTF
The following is a media release from the Toronto and York Region Labour Council.