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submitted 3 days ago by karlhungus@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

A more nuanced version of this post https://thenorthstar.media/article/2026/09/30/manitoba-ndp-crushes-health-care-workers-strike/.

They are forcing the strikers back (because peoples health depends on it), and looking at making these labs public again.

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[-] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Dynacare won the contracts when there was a conservative government in Manitoba between 2016 - 2023. Dynacare had a monopoly on lab results as of 2017.

While I'm 2025 Manitoba increased Dynacare's funding and subsidies with the intention that their employees would get paid better, dynacare pocketed the money (shocker).

It'll now be twice as expensive to move it back to publicly managed, but I'm hoping that Wab puts in the groundwork for that.

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