ST. CATHARINES: More than 100 nurses will lose their jobs as a result of a process that is neither fair to the VON, the nurses or the people of Niagara. There will be a media conference to discuss the flaws in the managed competition model, which has failed home care patients, workers and communities across Ontario.
Date: July 14, 2004
Time: 10:00 a.m
Place: Newman Room, Four Points Sheraton St. Catharines, 3530 Schmon Parkway, Thorold, Ontario (Intersection of Highway 406 at St. David's Road West)
Speakers: Leah Casselman, President, OPSEU
Hans Tammemagi, consultant who wrote VON’s proposal
OPSEU and the Save VON Campaign are asking Minister of Health and Long Term Care George Smitherman to suspend the Niagara contract pending a complete review of this process. In March 2004, OPSEU asked Smitherman for a province-wide investigation of managed competition after a similar process went awry in Ottawa. The minister rejected the
request.
Dr. Tammemagi is an author of six books, including Winning Proposals: How to write them and get results (1995 Vancouver, Self-Counsel Press) and teaches courses on proposal writing. He’ll explain how the VON, with its 85-year history of providing service to Niagara, was shut out of the process unfairly and without community input.
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For further information:
Debbie Charbonneau - 905-684-2693
Virgery Vanier - 905-227-3770
Hans Tammemagi – 905-641-0201
