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"No Paid Sick Leave Means Many More Preventable Deaths - and an Ongoing Failure to Keep People Safe": CUPE OntarioThe latest horrifying projections are a direct result of the ongoing political failure of our government, and that was just followed by a failure to save lives with paid sick leave and a host of other measures, says the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario. "We could be seeing up to 40,000 cases a day in the province by mid-February and Doug Ford (News - Alert) just failed to announce what we truly need today," said Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario. "Every expert has made it clear that we need paid sick leave, especially during an infection disease emergency. It's unconscionable that this government is yet again failing to take the advice and to keep us safe." CUPE Ontario, representing 280,000 public sector workers, is additionally calling on Doug Ford to recall the legislature immediately and to spend the at least $12-billion the Ford Conservatives have sitting in reserves to:
"By focusing on a stay-at-home order, reduced hours for stores, and requiring non-essential workers to work from home, this government is scapegoating everyday people and evading responsibility," said Hahn. "Now that the province has declared a state of emergency, it needs to use its powers to immediately take the measures we desperately need. And the Tories need to understand: with Emergency Powers comes total responsibility. What happens in the next few months will be 100% on their heads." kw/cope491
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