Hospital workers in Halton did their best to shame Ebenezer Scrooge Tuesday as they called for fair treatment from their stingy employer.
Scrooge made a guest appearance alongside protesting hospital workers from the Oakville and Milton sites of the Halton Health Care Services Corporation, as they rallied to condemn management efforts to downgrade wages and benefits, contract out hospital services and undermine service quality.
H0061006cton Health Care is trying to make our members the lowest paid hospital workers in the province, 00730061id Duncan Currie, president of CUPE 815. A00660074er opting out of a province wide settlement, Halton is pushing its own agreement with lower wages and benefits and contracting-out provisions. 000a003cp>H0061006cton is the only hospital that was part of central hospital negotiations to refuse to apply that settlement to its workers, 00730061id Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions. M0061006ey taxpayers will ask why Halton is allowed to spend tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers for yet another set of negotiations. 000a003cP>