Privatization
Privatization Watch - May 2012
Jun 12, 2012 05:07 PM
- CUPE to strengthen connections and communities at municipal conference
- Saint John voters reject corporate control of drinking water - poll
- Act hidden in budget bill begins sell-off of Ontario, means more back-room deals
- CUPE offers public solutions on health care innovation
- Unusual surprise for housekeeping staff at the Ottawa Hospital
- CUPE offers support to Quebec student protesters
- Members rally in Prince Albert to keep jobs in rural Saskatchewan
- Victoria calls for protection from Canada-EU trade deal
- New books chart public path for municipal services
Privatization Watch - April 2012
May 4, 2012 02:18 PM
- North Sask Laundry lays off 29 workers as Saskatoon laundry is shipped to Calgary
- Saskatchewan government’s new funding model for long-term care “costly mistake”
- Buyer beware Harper's CETA sales job, says CUPE national president
- New tool debunks CETA myths
- Atlantic mayors, B.C. communities join growing CETA opposition
- Canada-EU trade deal doesn’t protect public health care
- Public services: This is what democracy looks like
Privatization Watch - March 2012
Apr 16, 2012 02:30 PM
- New report finds Amicus long-term care deal costly for Saskatchewan taxpayers
- Plan to contract out medical transcription threatens patient confidentiality – HEU
- CUPE Saskatchewan calls for referendum on P3s
- “Keep it Local, Keep it Public” event shows importance of keeping services public
- Day One at World Water Forum: Fighting privatization and forging alliances
- World Water Forum wrap up: Water for life, not for profit
- Municipal opposition grows to Canada-EU trade pact
- A tale of two CETAs: Dissenting voices tell real story in parliamentary report
- CBC TV investigates causes of hospital-acquired infections
- Support public health care: sign the Call to Care!
Privatization Watch - February 2012
Mar 7, 2012 05:00 PM
- World’s best municipal tap water in Greenwood, B.C.
- CUPE Nova Scotia concerned about what we don’t know in Shared Services Review
- CUPE Local 963 applauds no privatization of NB Liquor
- New reality check on Moncton's privatized water
- Public Services threatened in Prince George
- Halifax high school group joins "Turn on the Taps and Ditch the Bottle" coalition
- Drummond austerity cure: bad medicine for ailing economy
- OCHU president warns Drummond report is chapter one in a move to privatize Ontario’s health care
- Rallies in Nanaimo, Shawnigan Lake support health care workers faced with contracting out
- Poll shows overwhelming support for public solutions to wait times in Saskatchewan
- FCM forum to help shape long-term infrastructure plan
Privatization Watch - January 2012
Feb 10, 2012 06:01 PM
- Make your community a bottled water free zone on March 15
- New Brunswick auditor slams privatized school deal
- Canada shows EU private firms our water is on offer: Moist and Barlow
- Briefing note details threat to water services from leaked CETA documents
- French water corporations face price-fixing probe
- Oshawa public garbage pick-up remains public
- CUPE Saskatchewan: public day surgery centre would do far more to expand capacity
- VIDEO: Regina public surgery centre best way to expand capacity
- Corporations Out of Health Care: OCHU report
- Halifax needs to revisit snow removal policies - CUPE 108
Privatization Watch - October/November 2011
Dec 6, 2011 01:04 PM
- P3 water project sinks in Abbotsford
- Alberni Valley campaign sinks P3 – keeps water public
- Abbotsford joins BC lobby to cut P3 strings from federal infrastructure funding
- Abbotsford packs the hall for public water
- Citizen takes on Abbotsford City Hall over P3 plan
- P3 water – Public money used to push private option in Abbotsford
- Feds get failing grade on drinking water protection
- Municipalities across Canada raise concerns about CETA
- CETA 2011 tour wraps up in December with London and Charlottetown dates
- Health care: 94% of Canadians - including Conservatives - choose public over for-profit solutions
- Privatization: the wrong direction for patients
- The truth about health care : Public Medicare is sustainable
- President of Britain's UNISON tells health care workers: Beware of privatization!
- Contracted-in NS road work cuts costs in half
- Regina curbside recycling should be publicly delivered
- Keep it Public! Our Proposal for Curbside Recycling in Regina
- Panelists share info and inspire at Child Care Sector meeting
Privatization Watch - September 2011
Oct 5, 2011 05:57 PM
- B.C. municipalities show strong support for public water
- Contracted-in Port Moody waste services collect international award
- Public waste services key to Port Coquitlam award win
- 89% of NL parents with childcare-age children support a public system – new poll
- Town of Mission to press Ottawa on public water
- City of Abbotsford silent on P3 plans
- Toronto councillors get clear message in massive poll: stop the cuts
- Eastern Municipal Conference wraps up with successful CETA event
- More university campuses choose public water
- Town of Conception Bay South contracts in residential garbage collection
- Sign the petition to fight federal public service cuts
Privatization Watch - November 2010
Dec 6, 2010 05:02 PM
- Council for Public Private Partnerships puts privatization plans into high gear
- P3 white elephant draws a crowd in Penticton
- CUPE launches national public services survey
- Alberta Tory documents suggest for profit health coming after next election
- Register now for CUPE’s National Municipal Sector Meeting
- Kingston hospital food fight heats up
- Committee tackles privatization and contracting out of public services
- CUPE committee tackles growth of for-profit child care
Privatization Watch - May 2010
Jun 2, 2010 02:55 PM
- The communities we want
- Bombardier head questions public-private partnerships
- Conservatives fund risky, expensive privatization deals
- Seymour-Capilano Filtration Plant opens
- Summary of Literature Review: The impact of privatization/contracting out on workers with disabilities
- Wastewater systems Effluent Regulations - Submission to the Deparment of the Environment by CUPE
Privatization Watch - April 2010
May 4, 2010 04:23 PM
- New report documents Peterborough waste collection victory
- CETA threatens public services
- Alberta AG raises questions about P3 schools
- Powell River to privatize wastewater treatment
- Keep postal services public
- NS premier announces bottled water ban
- Report shows P3 for Halifax convention centre costs more

