Interior Health screws its employees once again

[westbankkid]

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-s ... htm#199553

Get rid of some of the overpaid executives at Interior Health and the money saved would pay for new equipment....It's a bloody shame the new company pays half the wages IH paid. Maybe it's a good thing you got a wake up call with the election Christy, even tho I hate the NDP...

[maryjane48]

choice is clear . ndp them jobs stay . clark jobs gone replaced by a scab company

[LordEd]

Off Topic

[mr.bandaid]

The Liberal government do not like unions. Having said that the NDP were none to nice to the union I belonged to either.
The liberals like their corporate friends to make money. Anyone who works for them in this new laundry venture will not have that to look forward to. Minimum wage is the best that they can hope for and to be quite frank, I would prefer someone in as valuable of a job as doing bio-hazardous laundry to be happy at there job not worrying about how this job will help them pay the rent. Should be a revolving door that may just make the whole laundry company thing loose money.

[gman313]

The Liberal government do not like unions. Having said that the NDP were none to nice to the union I belonged to either.
The liberals like their corporate friends to make money. Anyone who works for them in this new laundry venture will not have that to look forward to. Minimum wage is the best that they can hope for and to be quite frank, I would prefer someone in as valuable of a job as doing bio-hazardous laundry to be happy at there job not worrying about how this job will help them pay the rent. Should be a revolving door that may just make the whole laundry company thing loose money.

$11.50

[gman313]

also, should be pretty easy to unionize the new place...start there and the wages will creep back up

[mr.bandaid]

also, should be pretty easy to unionize the new place...start there and the wages will creep back up

You would want to hope it would be hard for them to get employees in the first place. Hospital laundry is not like any other laundry you will ever see of smell.

[Osoyoos_Familyof4]

Where will the laundry physically be done now?

[gman313]

You would want to hope it would be hard for them to get employees in the first place. Hospital laundry is not like any other laundry you will ever see of smell.

I can imagine. I have only encountered severely soiled bedding once when we lost a family member. I agree completely.

If they don't get employees they will not be able to meet their contract and off that will go.

My guess is they will get employees though. I think a union drive would be relatively easy to do. It is a large organization and all those union dues would be welcomed by most unions I would think.

[gman313]

Where will the laundry physically be done now?

I believe there is a central facility that it will be trucked to. (ie, the entire IHA region). I'm not sure where that is though.

It was mentioned way back when the announcement first came out - but since I can't remember what I had for breakfast I won't remember where that is.

[GordonH]

^^^ BC Interior Ecotex
9750 McCarthy Rd, Kelowna, BC

[Osoyoos_Familyof4]

Also $11.50 (and you folks hopefully got a grip on my deportment in general) is so totally F'd my blood is boiling. That for this kind of hot, heavy, disgusting, and potentially dangerous job is unthinkable.

Do you wanna use slave-labour-linen when you're vulnerable? Money isn't always an indicator of quality, but sometime it sure as sh*t is a starting place.

The kind of industry who pays this wage ought not be responsible for infection control.

[goalie]

Next they will bring in some TFW's because these lazy Canadians don't want these high paying cushy jobs. Buy the CEO an other Benz, he deserves it.

[Osoyoos_Familyof4]

And the South Okanagan Hospital which services in an emergency a huge territory from The Boundary to Penticton is in danger of closing Friday night because they can't find a Dr. to cover. The threat isn't new, it has been threatened a few times this year, and there has been I think two (possibly 3) times in the last 18 months where it wasn't just a threat but a reality.

Doctor shortages to the extreme of closing an ER to a territory which services from boundary to Penticton filled with old folks and vacationers) is not unique to most Health Authorities in Canada. But closing an ER of this importance reeks of incompetence from both the IHA and The Province. If you can't afford to buy yourself out of a crisis than you are underfunded to the point of Provincial incompetence too.

Funny how before the election the people of the South Okanagan had a bunch of politicians promise us the issue was resolved and the second it's over (but not really as even that The Provincial Liberals can't quite manage) here we are again facing a one hour drive into Penticton in an emergency.

Austerity measures have gone too far when ER's can't stay open and infection control of linen is up to an employee so unskilled that they're willing to work for $11.50

[GordonH]

And the South Okanagan Hospital which services in an emergency a huge territory from The Boundary to Penticton is in danger of closing Friday night because they can't find a Dr. to cover. The threat isn't new, it has been threatened a few times this year, and there has been I think two (possibly 3) times in the last 18 months where it wasn't just a threat but a reality.

Doctor shortages to the extreme of closing an ER to a territory which services from boundary to Penticton filled with old folks and vacationers) is not unique to most Health Authorities in Canada. But closing an ER of this importance reeks of incompetence from both the IHA and The Province. If you can't afford to buy yourself out of a crisis than you are underfunded to the point of Provincial incompetence too.

Funny how before the election the people of the South Okanagan had a bunch of politicians promise us the issue was resolved and the second it's over (but not really as even that The Provincial Liberals can't quite manage) here we are again facing a one hour drive into Penticton in an emergency.

Austerity measures have gone too far when ER's can't stay open and infection control of linen is up to an employee so unskilled that they're willing to work for $11.50

IHA like all the health authorities in BC is extremely top heavy, shrink top end (management) & money would be there for front line staff.