OTTAWA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Thursday morning, a 15-foot wooden Trojan Horse will visit The Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus, symbolizing the “duplicity of the Ontario PCs hospital services’ privatization plan.”
As part of their province-wide Trojan Horse tour, CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU-CUPE) and the Ontario Health Coalition are calling for an end to ongoing privatization of hospital surgeries and diagnostic tests, and demanding the government invest in staffing and capacity in public hospitals.
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Michael Hurley, president of OCHU-CUPE |
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Sharon Richer, secretary-treasurer of OCHU-CUPE |
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Kevin Skerrett, representative of the Ottawa Health Coalition |
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Suzanne Pinel-Asselin, francophone vice-president of OCHU-CUPE |
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Protest against the privatization of hospital services |
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The Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus, 1967 Riverside Dr., Ottawa, ON |
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9:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 31 |
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