Our Ontario

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Cover Picture:

Photo by Bill Majesky

Convention delegates carry flags and banners to the King’s Health Centre in downtown Toronto to protest growing privatization of health care in Ontario. See convention stories starting on page 6.

Our Ontario, the official publication of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, is published four times a year for OPSEU members.

Editor: Katie FitzRandolph  Designer: Steve Daynes/Eric Mills

Contributors this issue: Katie FitzRandolph, Pierre Floréa, Bill Trbovich, Tim Little Translator: Paul Lau ISSN: 1484-9534

Articles in this Issue:

Leah Casselman's Column

Editors' Weekend/OPSEU Locals win 8 CALM awards

Med techs gain $3 million from pay equity/Pension survey a significant first/Support workers settle

Golfers raise $1,500 for Child Find Ontario/Oaklands gets 6% over two years

Canadian Blood Services has first contract/OPSEU wins wage increase for Norfolk ACL workers/First contract covers 175 hospital workers in Hamilton

Convention ‘99

Six new faces on OPSEU Board

OPSEU honours T.C. Douglas/Delegates make it easier to join Labour Councils/Dues extended to overtime/premiums

André Bekerman,senior negotiator,dies of cancer

Emergency! When you call an ambulance, is your priority health or profit?

Retired from the job, but not from the union

6,500 votes and counting

Psychiatric patients need OPSEU‘s voice

OPSEU Staff vacancies