Hospital Professionals Division
Video: Hospital professionals target Ontario PC
pledge to undermine job security
July 6, 2008
Hospital professionals represented by the Ontario Public
Service Employees Union have targeted the Ontario PC pledge to undermine job
security through competitions for jobs public sector workers already have.
OPSEU’s Hospital Professional Division has posted a YouTube video showing
the Tory platform for what it is – a terrible step backwards in worker’s
rights.
“Increasingly workers are finding out they are being left out of the
economic recovery,” says OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. “Instead of
addressing the issue of low wages and insecure employment, it appears that
PC leader Tim Hudak is threatening to make the situation much worse.”
Substituting modern health care professionals for displaced farm workers
from the dirty thirties, the video reminds viewers of what can happen when
government places the interests of Bay Street ahead of Main Street.
“I think most Ontarians oppose the idea of their government deliberately
creating a low wage economy in this province,” says Thomas. “By attacking
job security and wages in the public sector, they are attacking all workers
who are struggling to maintain their standard of living.”
Adjusted for inflation, wages for the middle class have remained stagnant
for close to thirty years while the top 20 per cent of Canadians have made
considerable gains. Canada’s income gap between rich and poor is among the
fastest growing in the developed world.
The video was shot in Port Perry in June.
To view the video, click on the window below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DVRpU4Vc4
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