WHITBY – Staff at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (formerly Whitby Mental Health) will hold a march and rally to protest recent cuts to the hospital.
Recently Ontario Shores has:
- Closed one of its two off-site locations for Beacon House, a residential treatment program serving individuals with complex personality problems.
- Closed Challenging Directions Enterprises, a Whitby-based oupatient workshop that provides work experience to 75-80 clients daily.
- Privatized laundry services, providing less care for the clothing of residents.
Eliminated 55 positions, including professional and support staff
When: Saturday, March 20 at 10 am
Where: OPSEU members will gather at Victoria and Gordon Streets in Whitby and March down Gordon to the driveway entrance of Ontario Shores.
Who: Speakers will include Patty Rout, OPSEU 1st Vice-President.
OPSEU Diablogue 
Front line staff should not be layed off. They need to look at how many management there are. Before divestment there may have been 100 or so managers and after divestment estimates are over 200 high paid managers. I would like to know why the hospital could get along with fewer managers previously. Managers should be laid off over front line staff.