30 years of pay equity progress at risk from government�s health privatization plans � study
March 6, 2003, VANCOUVER: The B.C. government�s plans to privatize health care support services will turn back the clock on women�s wages to levels unseen since the late 1960s and put patient care at risk, according to a new study by Simon Fraser University economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen.
Commissioned by the Hospital Employees� Union and released today, the study says that the B.C. government�s year-old contract-breaking legislation sets the stage for hospital support workers� wages to �drop to the lowest pay scale in the country for every job category � and not by a few percentage points but by substantial amounts.�
More than 85 per cent of HEU members � those workers targeted by the legislation � are women.
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