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November 19, 2003: OPSEU holds press conference at MEDCOM and calls on the Premier of Ontario to take immediate action to end chronic staff shortages at Ontario’s ambulance dispatch centres
November 19, 2003: Leah Casselman speaking notes
November 19, 2003: Chuck Kennedy, steward, Local 545 speaking notes
November 19, 2003: Patrick Fry-Smith, vice-president, Local 201 and Dispatch Director, Ambulance Division, speaking notes
November 19, 2003: Sandra Edwards, vice-president, Local 302 and Dispatch Chair, Ministry of Health Enforcement and Renewal Committee, speaking notes
June 9, 2003 Hamilton Spectator: Hamilton faces dispatcher crisis
May 12, 2003 Letter from Jim Wilson, MPP, Simcoe-Grey, about dispatchers' concerns and Georgian
dispatchers' reply. .pdf
May 26, 2003 Press Release The Ernie Eves government has admitted there is a staffing problem at the province’s ambulance
dispatch centres.
Letter to Ernie Eves, from Thunder Bay Mayor Ken Boshcoff, urging the premier to immediately and fully implement the recommendations of the IBI Group report.
Letter to the editor, London Free Press, from OPSEU Local 147 member, Tracy Dietrich.
Dispatchers sound the alarm at Queen's Park, report from May 5 Lobby Day, May 8, 2003
May 5 Lobby Day at
Queen's Park - Pictures from the event
References in the Ontario legislature, to ambulance dispatch, resulting from OPSEU's May 5 lobby day
Press release: May 5, 2003 Ambulance response times delayed by dispatchers' staffing crisis, says OPSEU.
Chart: CACCs, their catchment areas and MPPs. Look at this chart to find out which MPPs are in your CACC's catchment area. April 30. .pdf
Press release: Ambulance dispatchers hold information picket in London on April 30
Fact Sheet: Emergency Health Services at risk, April 28. Give this to the cabinet ministers and MPPs when you lobby them. .pdf
E-mail Premier Ernie Eves: Protect emergency health services
E-mail from Dave Potts, unit steward, Local 147, London CACC to Conservative cabinet ministers and MPPs, April 24. To e-mail government and
opposition MPPs, go to www.ontla.on.ca , click on members, click on lists, click on addresses and click on e-mail
Lobby day for emergency health services, May 5, 2003. Flyer. Please post and distribute at CACCs and ambulance bases. Please e-mail Patrick Fry-Smith at pfry@metrocity.com
with the names of dispatchers from your CACC who will be coming to Toronto on May 5. .pdf
Target 15 Tories. Instructions on how and who to lobby, and key messages to use. .pdf
Lobby letter to Premier Eves. You can also modify it and send it to key Tory and opposition MPPs. Microsoft Word Document
Petition to solve the staffing crisis April 24, 2003. Word document.
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