FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa, ON – 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.
Who: Michael Hurley, president of OCHU-CUPE
Sharon Richer, secretary-treasurer of OCHU-CUPE
Kevin Skerrett, representative of the Ottawa Health Coalition
Suzanne Pinel-Asselin, francophone vice-president of OCHU-CUPE
What: Protest against the privatization of hospital services
Where: The Ottawa Hospital Riverside Campus, 1967 Riverside Dr., Ottawa, ON
When: 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 31
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For more information, contact:
Zaid Noorsumar
CUPE Communications
znoorsumar@cupe.ca
647-995-9859
