PETERBOROUGH: The Ontario Public Service Employees Union
will tell an expert panel tomorrow how home care is
being driven into the ground by the system of
competitive bidding for contracts.
OPSEU has been at the centre of two
landmark community struggles against unfair competitive
bidding, in Hamilton (2007) and Niagara (2004).
Lucy Morton, president of OPSEU local
269, representing OPSEU’s home care sector, will tell
the panel how her local worked with the community in
Hamilton to fight the contractingout of home care, and
to gain a province-wide moratorium on the competitive
bidding process.
This is one of five hearings -- others
are in Toronto, Sarnia, Ottawa, and Thunder Bay – held
by the Ontario Health Coalition on the future of home
care. Panelists are writer and health analyst Carol
Kushner, writer and health consultant Pat Baranek, and
Marion Dewar, advocate for seniors, former MP, and
former Mayor of Ottawa.
OPSEU’s presentation will take place at:
Where: Peterborough Holiday
Inn, 150 George Street
When: June 11, 2008 – 3: 40
p.m.
OPSEU represents about 2,000 home care
workers including nurses, therapists, social workers,
case managers and home support workers. They are
employed at both for-profit and not-for-profit agencies
and at Community Care Access Centres. These include
direct-care staff employed by the CCAC in Peterborough.
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