Archive
November 10, 2005 OPSEU 500 members at
CAMH ratified their new contract Nov. 9 with 89 per cent voting in favour of
the new collective agreement. The team expressed thanks to all CAMH members
for mobilizing in support of their efforts at the table.
November 1, 2006
Confidential report shows on-going need for Brockville Psychiatric Hospital:
OPSEU
November 1, 2006
Confidential report underscores lack of mental health services in the southeast:
OPSEU
October 31, 2006 Confidential report
shows mental health restructuring isn’t
working: OPSEU
October 31, 2006 Report shows St.
Joseph’s Health Care continues to cut mental
health beds: OPSEU
October 5, 2006:
Enshrine funding guarantees before programs are downloaded: OPSEU
November 29, 2006
Local 331 holds information picket at
Whitby Mental Health: Union says
employer not respecting transfer
agreement from OPS
Media
Nov. 10, 2006
North Bay Nugget article:
Mental health services aren't working; Trouble may loom as psych hospital
restructures - union
Nov. 3, 2006
Kingston Whig-Standard editorial: From
Hospital to community
Nov. 2, 2006
Brockville Recorder and Times article:
Secret report shows need for psychiatric facility, OPSEU says
Nov. 1, 2006
London Free Press article:
OPSEU says mental health beds are being
unsafely reduced
Nov. 2, 2006
Kingston Whig Standard article: Providence patients in limbo
Question in the
legislature
Nov. 1, 2006
Premier Dalton McGuinty is asked
about the Deloitte report in the legislature by NDP MPP Shelley Martel.
October 24, 2006 Deloitte Report on Former PPH's
October
24, 2006 Tier 3 Divestment Report
August 30, 2006
Hospital fiscal advisory committee workshops begin October 18. .pdf
July 14,
2006 Globe and Mail letter to the editor by Leah
Casselman on the cuts and closures of provincial psychiatric hospitals.
July 6, 2006
Newsletter:
Voice of Reason Divestments a vote of confidence in OPSEU; LHINs;
local updates and more
November 2,
2005 CAMH Negotiations News:
Bargaining information for members.
Team recommends ratification. Vote information.
Toronto Star editorial, Sept. 17, Dubious financing for health
facility, on turning the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health into a
private P3 hospital. (note: this link will open a new browser window)
September 13, 2005 -
Voice of Reason:
Frontline News and Views from OPSEU's Mental Health
Division - Division continues to pressure MOHLTC on divestment/ Local
152 stops layoffs/ Local 500 opposes P3 at CAMH/ Survey time for RPNs/ A
message from the Division Executive/ Local 636 organizes against P3s/ Local
431 fights dress code/ Communities talk mental health/ Divestment update/
Division dues reminder
June 27, 2005
Staff at Across Boundaries (Local 512) facing possible lockout.
May 9, 2005 OPSEU activists confront George Smitherman at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health on layoffs. Read
Local 500's news release
and the
letter presented to the Minister
at his news event.
November 16, 2004
Building Links for Better Mental Health - Conference Highlights
February 4, 2004 News Release:
OPSEU is asking the Liberal government to put a moratorium on bed closures
August 26, 2003 News Release:
Brockville Psychiatric Hospital OPSEU steps up campaign to protect jobs in Brockville
OPSEU-Sponsored community forums on mental health care
Plans to introduce a
Public Private
Partnership at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health fail dismally on federal government guidelines for P3s, OPSEU President Leah Casselman tells a press conference.
Reality, Ontario’s Mental Health Care System isn’t working.
This 100-page report documents serious and fatal shortcomings in a system that should protect the most vulnerable citizens in the province.
Please click here to download the report (.pdf).
Bargaining News:
Brockville Psychiatric Hospital
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July 2003
Brockville Psychiatric Hospital, Bargaining
News - Issue 5 The
end is in sight for bargaining. Bringing it
home to Bob.
July
21, 2003 Open letter to Bob Runciman,
MPP, from Leah Casselman
(this ran as a full page ad in the
Brockville Recorder and Times, July 4) |
June 2003 Brockville Psychiatric Hospital, Bargaining News - Issue
4
Back to arbitration July 9. Where's my job, Bob? Join the campaign.
November 27, 2002 Brockville Psychiatric Hospital, Bargaining News - Issue 3
Employer stalls to avoid bargaining transfers and layoffs at ROH
October 16, 2002: Why aren't we bargaining? Ask the employer!
March 12 2002:
Union asks for conciliation to get talks moving |
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