SSIs 9 Y EE AT CHECK THE FOLLOWING WAGE SCALES AND BENEFITS. WE BELIEVE THEM TO BE L Re! A fi EMINENTLY FAIR The Health Labour Relations Association, certified T 6 4 bargaining agent for 8.C.'s hospitals, has offered tha by HLA toe ries shown as naatnaations oltered Hospital Employees’ Union an increase in wages and Filing Clerk $848.75 benotits of eight percent Clerk Typist $869.75 HLRA firmly believes that in the light of accelerating Modica! Stenographer! $955.50 hospital costs this is the maximum amount that can Dietary Aide $827.50 be econoniically Justified. A great many people Cleaner $955.50 support this stand, and support it strongly. Licensed Practical Nurso $1,006.00 if the hospital employees were undarpaid, or lacked Ordorly $1,006.00 r by 2 r Labourer $964.50 benefits enjoyed by others in the community. HLRA could perhaps c a greater - Such, THE HEU SAYS THESE RATES ARE however, is not the case. B.C, hospital employee NOT ACCEPTABLE wages are currentiy equal to, or better than most other wages in the community—and at wage scales higher than hospitats in most other provinces. CHECK THESE ADDITIONAL BENEFITS ALREADY OFFERED THIS ISSUE AFFECTS YOU, BY HLRA BECAUSE YOU PAY FOR IT G4 A full dentat pian—100 percent employer paid. As taxpayers, this settlement affects YOU. You . G1 An increase in paid sick leave to 156 deys from 120, already pay an average of 56144 year for hospital pius 40 percent cash for unused sick days upon services. HLRA’s reasonable offer will cost each retirement. household a further $75 a year. Just for the BA lati. tf fe Jn ma increase! if a 15.15 percent increase is awarded—as new bg oF ter wo work In the HEU demands it should be—the increase will be een es and are required to wear regular almost twice as much. . 5 Gf A full salary. b fits and related while on LET’S LOOK UNEMOTIONALLY educational teave at the request of the hospital AT AWAGE PRECEDENT & Spacial leave for situations such as ‘paternal \ A A . . maternity’, household emergencies and travel tn HLRA's negotiations with another hospital union, wit i leave. Total leave for arbitration wasinvenes by ihe unon The oroitator these purposes—up to 26 days, Stated that in viow of the current teve! of wages being An increase in the northern differential to $46.50 paid and the critical economic situation tacing the a month. pation and more particularly the hospitals of Batish HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES ewe F PSR AAS! cd, ho ruled the fo increase under the Anti-Inflation Act to ALREADY constitute falr treatment for 1976. THESE BENEFITS THIS MEANS EIGHT PERCENT— Qf Four weeks paid vacation after one year, and six INCLUSIVE OF WAGES AND weeks afler 24 years. BENEFITS. Bi Unifor ied and maintained by the h BG severance all. ance ion plan, B.C. HOSPITAL COSTS ARE A 37%-hour work week. ESCALATING RAPIDLY 1 Three days compassionate teave for the death ofa Remember as you read the taltowing that these costs member of a family or relative. are YOUR cosis, as a Britist: Columbia taxpayer: ® Twenty cents per hour shift promiurn tor evening end @ Since 1970, each househoid's contribution toward night shilts. the hospitat costs of this province has increased by Eleven paid statutery holidays— including three more than 200 percent. . which carry a premium wage of triple and a haif time. @ Total wages and benefits have increased trom . $288 million in 1974 to $456 million in 1975, This HLRA REJECTED THE BLAIR increase of $68 million was more than the totat cost . of health care fur the entire year of 1965. w REPORT FOR THESE REASONS: 1 In 1974, the total wage and benclit cost tor BC.’s ie fotal monetary package o| percent wou! hospital industry was $288 million. The proposed aes ine commante at industry toa point HEU increase wilt bring the annuat wage and senelit costs for the HEU alone to $230 million, That s for & The Blair revort proposes an eight percent across- ONE union only with several more to follow. tha-board increase PLUS a one-for-one percent Cost #8 Tho lowe st wage rate in the hospital industry today is of Living Adjustment. This means that for ene $4.58 an hour—in excess of $9,000 per year. This the Vancouver jonsumer rice Index ris@s, F beginning wage is paid to dietary aides, housekeep- addition 10 the don erent inom moase n ing aides, messengers and elevator operators. und * ger 9 . ° the scale goes up to more than $18,000 a year for 3 Wage and bonefit costs would rise almost a dollar an other employees. hour from $6.37 to $7.34 an hour—at least 15.15 @ Wage rates in the hospitat industry have. over tha last Pris oraane ea alt proposals ware to be accepted. tew years, Consistently exceeded the Consumer . Price Index. For exampig tast yaar, when the CPI Wo have attempted In this advertiszoment to went up only 11 percent a licensed practical nurse give you tho very tough monetary facts in tho received an increase of 20 percent current hospital dispute. Wo believe itis 8 Over 8.000 hospital employes in Albarta were rationality vial fe mae this Hany recently awarded an aight percent acrass-the-board : wage adjustment with no mcreain inbenelits Alborta To accede to those HEU damands would have to wages, oven with this, are lower than thoso in the mean a cutback in hospital beds and pro- B.C. hospital industry. grammes because the monoy now usod to Provide thom would nave to go to these unecos- sary end unwarranted higher wagos and HEALTH _ benefits, IABOUR engl such « course of action would bo RELATIONS THE HEALTH LABOUR RELATIONS ASSOCIATION OF B.C, AGE OOM ALEVE eae cage . 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