MEDIA ADVISORY: “We will defend our public health care system against privatization” – Stratford and Guelph hospital workers to attend Ontario Health Coalition rally in Toronto

Event Information

Begins: 25 September 2023
Location: Toronto, ON

Hospital workers represented by CUPE will depart from Stratford on Monday morning, picking up their fellow union members from Guelph on the way to Queen’s Park

STRATFORD, ON –/COMMUNITYWIRE/– As public hospitals in Ontario face unprecedented pressures, and the government resorts to privatization as a fix, health care workers represented by CUPE’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) are taking a stand to defend the public, not-for-profit system.

On Monday, September 25, hospital workers represented by CUPE 4727 in Stratford and CUPE 57 in Guelph will be travelling via bus to the Ontario Health Coalition’s rally at Queen’s Park in Toronto. The bus will depart from Stratford Mall at 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning.

Treena Hollingworth, OCHU elected representative and president of CUPE 4727, will be available for media interviews this week as well as at 8:15 a.m. on Monday morning at the Tim Horton’s parking lot at the Stratford Mall.

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For more information contact:

Zaid Noorsumar, CUPE Communications
647-995-9859
znoorsumar@cupe.ca