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Take action: Canadian veins are not for profit

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Take action: Canadian veins are not for profit

November 30, 2022
By Tracy Glynn
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As Canadian Blood Services (CBS) board of directors gather in Ottawa on Thursday, December 1, they will be met by people saying, “Canadian veins are not for profit!”

Join a workers’ picket against privatizing plasma collection outside the CBS office in Ottawa (1800 Alta Vista Dr.) on December 1 from 8am to 11am.

The picket, organized by OPSEU and supported by the Canadian Health Coalition, Bloodwatch.org, NUPGE, CUPE and other unions and public health care advocates, is against CBS inking a 15-year deal with the multinational company Grifols to buy and sell plasma in Canada, threatening the sustainability and safety of Canada’s voluntary blood collection.


Other pickets against paid-plasma happening on Dec. 1 –

In Edmonton, AB, join Friends of Medicare outside the CBS office at 8249 114 St NW on Dec. 1 at 12 noon MST.

In Dartmouth, NS, join the Nova Scotia Health Coalition at the Canadian Blood Services Product Distribution Centre at 270 John Savage Ave. on Dec. 1 at 12 noon Atlantic time.


Amplify our calls to stop private plasma collection in Canada.

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Canadian Blood Services has signed an undisclosed 15yr deal to privatize plasma collection. This Thursday, join us in Ottawa to tell CBS: Canadian veins are not for profit!

🗓️Thurs, Dec 1
🕗 8-11am
📍 1800 Alta Vista Dr., Ottawa@BloodWatchOrg @NUPGE pic.twitter.com/G8OLpkndHg

— OPSEU (@OPSEU) November 28, 2022
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Save our public voluntary blood system! On Dec. 1, join an info picket outside Canadian Blood Services offices in Ottawa, Edmonton, Charlottetown. Details here –> https://t.co/FvqMik8V4u @HealthCoalition @BloodWatchOrg @NUPGE @cupehealthcare #profitdoesntcare pic.twitter.com/YViPeoRcRh

— Cdn Health Coalition (@HealthCoalition) November 29, 2022
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Stop for-profit plasma collection! On Dec. 1, join an info picket outside Canadian Blood Services offices in Ottawa, Edmonton, Charlottetown. Details here –> https://t.co/FvqMijRS2u @HealthCoalition @BloodWatchOrg @NUPGE @cupehealthcare @FriendsMedicare #profitdoesntcare pic.twitter.com/iet3BSGYDj

— Cdn Health Coalition (@HealthCoalition) November 29, 2022
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Blood donors are not for sale! On Dec. 1, join an info picket against paid plasma outside Canadian Blood Services offices in Ottawa, Edmonton, Charlottetown. Details: https://t.co/FvqMijRS2u @HealthCoalition @BloodWatchOrg @NUPGE @cupehealthcare @FriendsMedicare #profitdoesntcare pic.twitter.com/0wl6ieeUgb

— Cdn Health Coalition (@HealthCoalition) November 29, 2022
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Grifols: Stay out! On Dec. 1, join an info picket against paid plasma outside Canadian Blood Services offices in Ottawa, Edmonton, Charlottetown. Details here –> https://t.co/FvqMijRS2u @HealthCoalition @BloodWatchOrg @NUPGE @cupehealthcare @FriendsMedicare #profitdoesntcare pic.twitter.com/hccD4H9p1d

— Cdn Health Coalition (@HealthCoalition) November 29, 2022
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