More than 350 mid-Island health workers hit hard by long weekend announcements

B.C.’s commitment to jobs and families questioned as Parksville and Nanaimo workers face job losses and wage cuts stemming from government privatization policies

October 11, 2011

Health care workers and their families at care facilities in Parksville and Nanaimo were forced to spend the long weekend worrying about how they’d make ends meet after Friday afternoon announcements of impending wage cuts and the contracting out of their work.

At Parksville’s Stanford Place, more than 200 health care workers were told by an arbitrator that they must accept significant wage rollbacks and benefit cuts in order to keep the facility’s private operator financially viable.

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