The Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-10-24, Page 4k
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Lucknow S.1dnc1, Wednesdai, 'October 24, 1984—Page 4
County recognizes nurses underpaid
The Bruce County Board of. Health has major issue. The board assumed after two
recognized of its own• accord the Bruce ratified, contracts with the Ontario Nurses
County Health Unit nurses are underpaid Association local, the language of the
in comparison to current standards, ac- contract was more or less acceptable,
cording to the board chairman. Thomson said. ,
In a statement released to area news- The board in its judgement felt monetary
papers on Monday, David Thomson said issues required the quickest attention and
the board has offered a significant wage therefore offered a scale of wages which
package to the nurses asa group, in which gave the most of the nurses parity with'
the majority of nurses can expect an neighbouring health units, Thomson points
• immediate increase in their base salary. out in the statement, To accomplish this
The offer is an attempt to quickly bring the upward move fiscally, the board chose not
nurses in line with neighbouring health to award retroactivity or professional
units. degree allowance, with the view the total
This package, even without retroactivity , wage package took these factors into
or professional degree allowances will account. ,
assure future wage parity with neighbour- Thomson added the board also thought
ing health Units, said Thomson. • non -monetary factors could be dealt with in
• The board cannot understand why the future contracts.
language of the contracthas become such a The Bruce County Board. of Health has
adopted an open door approach to "contract
disputes, but the nurses failed to recognize
this effort observed Thomsen. The board
respects the nurses and anticipates it will
be able to continue co-operative efforts in
the near future.
For the duration of the strike some
health unit' services will be suspended,
according to Bruce medical officer of
health, J. D. Pudden. Suspended programs
include school health monitoring and
screening; home visiting by public health
nurses; the family planning program;
prenatal classes Offered by the health unit
and immunization clinics.
Dental services in the schools, hearing
tests in the schools and c1inic, health
inspection and land use services, the rabies
education program in the school and home
care services will continue.
Lockout *withdraws services, not strike say nurses
Ontario Nurses Association local 4
has issued a statement in response to
the press release outlining Bruce
• 'County's position which was released
Monday. ,
In their statement the thirteen Bruce
• County Health Unit nurses say they
' wish to clarify to the public and their°
• employer that they have been locked out
of their work place and are not on legal
strike. The lockout action by the county
• has deprived the community of the
•necessary servicesprovided by the
nurses.
The nurses withdrew their services
for two day durations, once a week,
beginning October 4 and were locked
out by the county October 11. The
• nurses who are the lowest paid in
Canada are, seeking :'parity with their
counterparts in Grey -Owen Sound and
surrounding .counties.
Their statement says the nurses are
asking for a salary settlement benefiCial
to • all members, while the board of
health has proposed a salary package
which gives •son* an increase while
ignoritrrothers. •
The offer gave some nurses a sub-
stantial increase for three months in
1984, while others received less monies
and the registered nurses would receive
a two per cent salary increase over two
years. Those nurses would still be the
lowest paid in any • health unit in
Canada, according to the union local.
• The county's offer eliminated retroac-
tivity, allowance for education, mileage
cost of living allowance and froze
salaries for 1985. In other words, the
statement points out, the had to
give up, money to get money -and_they
will be paying for their own salary
•itincrease.
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Survey shows majority favour expansion of core French
• The majority, of Catholic school sup-
porters in Huron and Perth are in favor of
expanding the Core French program.
This was the overriding result of a
French survey conducted by the Huron-
• Perth Separate School Board and released
at the board's September 10 meeting. No
action was taken on the survey as trustees
agreed to take, some time to study the
survey further. The survey was not ex-
pected until the end of September or early
• October.
• Superintendent of education John Mc-
• 'Cauley said the survey folloWs/ a request
• from . a parent group in, Goderich for
• French Immersion and a Stratford parent
group's request . for French• as a first
language school.
• There were 814 surveys returned to the
board office. McCauley noted that the
response numbers don't agree with the
• number of surveys returnedbecause some
• respondents only answered certain sec-
tions of, the survey. •.
• About 2,000 ,surveys were sent • out to
• separate school ratepayers in Huron and
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