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P3 Alert - October 2007

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Big box operator eyes Canada’s child care

Big box operator eyes Canada?s child care

October 24, 2007 04:14 PM The world’s biggest child care corporation appears to be embarking on a Canadian buying spree – a development that threatens the future of a public, non-profit child care system.

Water privateers reap ‘astronomical profits’

October 30, 2007 10:04 AM A new study says French water multinationals Veolia and Suez are making ‘astronomical profits’ in France - where they control much of the market - while delivering low-level services.

Compass Group wants to import cleaners

HEU’s living wage campaign: a living wage means everything

October 12, 2007 11:26 AM A private contractor in BC is having a hard time recruiting and retaining people to do the most dangerous, and dirty health care jobs for $12.59 an hour. Imagine that.

Building sell-off ‘bad deal for Canadians’

D’arcy McGee building: on deck for P3 swindle

October 29, 2007 02:27 PM New research shows the Conservative government lowballed the price of federal buildings it recently sold in a P3 scheme.

Sherbrooke municipal workers go public about P3s

October 30, 2007 10:35 AM The 425 outside municipal workers in Sherbrooke, Quebec, have had it with increased privatization and public-private partnerships (P3s) in their city.

To really waste money, set up a P3

October 30, 2007 10:14 AM A recent Fraser Institute study claims to have found $125 billion in "government waste", and calls for increased privatization as the solution to its manufactured problem. CUPE National President Paul Moist's response in the National Post debunks the Institute's push to privatize.

Convention health care forum: CUPE a leader fighting health privatization

October 16, 2007 09:38 AM CUPE must lead a cross-country campaign to fight a coordinated and emboldened push to privatize health care, said CUPE health sector members attending Sunday’s sectoral convention meeting.

Delegates debate strategic directions

Debating the Strategic Directions document

October 16, 2007 10:17 AM Day two of CUPE's national convention started with debate on the CUPE National Strategic Directions document, "Securing the Future".