by People's Voice Niagara Bureau
* The Niagara Health System mysteriously announced that six top managers are no longer working for the NHS because of unspecified restructuring, despite the provincially appointed supervisor explaining he is for transparency. The supervisor was appointed after complaints about cutting local services to move them over an hour away to a P3 (public-private-partnership) hospi t a l , ove r 30 pa t i ent s dying f rom hospi t a l - acquired infections, and patients being asked to call 911 from within the hospital for care.
* The Ontario Ministry of Health is into its fifth year of not answering for why a for-profit company failed to build a nearly 100 long-term care bed facility in Welland despite granting all approvals, contributing to one of the longest waiting lists in the region.
* CAW Local 523 steelworkers at Lakeside Steel in Welland are still waiting to learn the terms of a proposed buy-out, buyer unknown because of a “confidentiality agreement”, after the union agreed to concessions earlier last year.
* 110 meat processing workers of UFCW Local 175 were laid off at the end of a shift, after the new owner decided to keep the business and machines but not the employees who had made the company successful. The press release announcing the sale to the familyowned chicken-processor said the company is committed to staying in Ontario but said nothing about the layoffs, which one worker told reporters was a “total shock” and caused tears on the last shift. The sale was approved by a producers’ organization, Chicken Farmers of Ontario, who said they expect the buyer to honour “the relationships and contractual obligations” with growers, but were silent about the workers.
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