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A Local Union is Saying No Health Care Funding Cuts.

  CUPE Local Vice-President Jen Meikle and Pres Christine Lussier

 

Members of CUPE Local 8600 who work for the Northern Health Region in Flin Flon held an information picket line at Pioneer Square yesterday.  Union President Christine Lussier says they were there to support our health care and stop working short staffed.  She says Brian Pallister made a promise that there would be no cuts to frontline care dropping a six million dollar budget cut and forcing the NHRA’s hand to do his dirty work, dumping an unrealistic workload on them, especially given the fact it is diminishing the quality of our health care.

             

Flin Flon MLA Tom Lindsey added one big concern of being short staffed is seniors care.  He says when they’re not replacing people when they phone in sick or are missing for other reasons it just stretches people that are there so thin that they can’t give proper care to seniors and that’s not fair to people who have worked their whole lives and deserve better.

             

CUPE represents support workers in the hospital and care home in Flin Flon. 

 

 

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