PAGE Aa Cost of Living Adjustments in Hospital Contracts - Cost-ol-.'ving adjustments plus negoliated increments may increase the earnings of British ‘Columbia hospital workers by 40 per cent'in less than two Years. ' . The B.C. Association of Hospitals and Health Organizations teday reviewed highlights of economics clauses in the collective agreement between member hospitals and Local 180, Hospital Employees’ Union. It took the step to prove the the public that it is not “anti-employee,” which has been alleged by a HEU Spokesman. (Day to day costs of B.C. hospitals are met by BC. :Hospital Insurance Service, the + Government agency respon- sible for administering tax” dollars that flow into this very costly and demanding segment of health care). | . (Authorities agree that. the -eost of providing health care are ‘rescalating ta the point. where such expenditures consume more of the provincial budget than any other social service and the costs are rising ‘ata faster rate than in any service or the gross national product.) The figure of 40 per‘cent was derived in compounding the’ effect of wage increases: that were applied last January 1,4 Clift Decides to Hold Meeting In « Kilimat-Stikine Regional ‘District Chairman Ev Clift has apparently completed his ‘telephone. survey of his Directors and the decision is to ‘come home to Terrace for a meeting after an absence of over three months. The meeting is scheduled for the Regional District Boar Room at 4644 Lazelle Ave., on .. Friday August 23 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Despite the fact thal the previous meeting took place on July 12, the August 23 agenda Jooks bare. There are four ‘letters listed, a petition re: Hoss Lake Hazelton, a report on a Land Commission Meeting ta ‘be held at Smithers tomorrow, a report an a meeting bled al the -Nass Camp and Stewart July 19, “a report on the Huge Summer i Dental ADENTAL *. “PHROPHYLARIS" | - ‘The presence of. calculus . (tartar) - a hard foreign matter that clings to the necks of teeth - is one of the commonest causes -of irritation. and inflammation - ‘of the gums and lissues holding ‘and supporting the teeth, says the Canadian Dental Association. Calenlus comes from ‘the saliva. In the form of calcium salts which aré deposited like boiler scale on the leeth. In A British Columbia Com- mittee on Humane Trapping has been formed lo make . recommendations to the Federal-Provincial Humane - Trapping’ Committee and speed up development. to humane - . trapping in this province. Members of the new com- _ mittee include professional trappers, the. Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, and 8.C. * Association of Non-Stalus In- ’ dians, the Fish and Wildife Branch, .the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the 5:P.C.A., and the B.C. Association for «the ‘ Protection of Fur Bearing ». Animals. The new committee chaired -by Mr. George Clements , will also serve‘as a - co-ordinating and advisory - body ta. produce joint recommendations for action in . BO The collection and testing of - humane trapping devices is . already underway so that firm , recommendations can be made and implemented by the target - date of 1978. A Patent Advisary Service has been established by the Federal-Provincial Humane Trapping Committee lo offer _information and advice to . potential human trap inventors. Terrace Student Programmes un- dertaken by. the Regional District and’ a report on the Yellowhead 16 Brochure Publication. ’ The only other item listed for discussion:under new business is a proposed visit to Iskul- ‘Telegraph Creek. There isno mention of a letter “written by Terrace Mayor Gordon Rowland to the _ Chairman of the Kitimat- Stikine Regional District dated August 9 soundly criticizing the Board's action in reducing the. city's priority of the govern- ment acquiring Spring Creek Golf Course. In this letter, reported on in more detail elsewhere in today’s Herald, Mayor Rowland states ‘thal he learned of the Board’s action “with ulter disbelief.” Topics | time it builds up in layers. It also comes from calcium which is released from the tiny gum blood vessels ‘and. deposited beneath the gum margins on the surface of the raat. lf ecaleulus is present the dentist removes it with a fine, sharp, hook-like instrument called a scaler. The scaler pulls, pushes and scrapes the calculus away. from the tenacious grasp on the tooth. After scaling. the-leeth are _ polished to burnish all exposed surfaces and diminish the ehances for new calculus deposits to slick to the teeth. 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The result is that a cook now earning $937 a month will rise to $1,062 per month in just over one year from now, assuming that cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) are on the scale of 5 per cent for each six-month | reference petiod. . The Association said the increases in the salaries and wages of hospital workers have been startling in-recent years and there is good reason to wonder how.much longer the economy will be able to tolerate such examples of inflation. A case in point, said the Association, is that’ of a dietary maid. Prior to Nov. 1973, the highest wage in that category was $493 a month. ~ Health Minister Dennis Cocke in late 1973 ordered an im- mediate -and ‘retroactive . ad- tjustment to end male-female discrimination among earnings of hospital workers. That ad- justment plus an increase of 12 per cent that went into effect January | this year brought the monthly wage of the maid up to $638, A 5 per cent cost-of-living _ allowance lo be applied next month will bring it to $670. Next January 1, the beginning of the second year. of HEU's two-year contract with hospitals, will see another $60 applied to the maid's monthly wages. By April 1, 1975, a cost- of-living allowances .will be applied and, if this is 5 per cent, the earnings will further escalate to $733. Next September 1, the maid will be eligible for another cost-of- living allowance. In summary, this is what has -been happening to the wages of the 14,000 HEU members in B.C.: . they went up 12 per cent ‘last January 1, and will in- ” grease another 6 per cent under COLA on September 1. The negotiated increase af 8 per cent or $60 per month (whichever is less} will apply to the aggregated increases next ‘danuary 1, On top of that, there will be two COLA adjustments next year -- April 1 and Sep- tember 1, and, if each is in the order of 5 per cent, there would have been a compounded wage increase of 40 per cent in less than two years. . "tt must be remembered that such’ cost-ofliving allowances will provide a higher base on” which the Hospital Employees’ Union will negotiate a‘ new contract applicable in 1976," said the Association. “The provincial governmnat has budgetted about $380 park avenue realty limited 4615, park avenue terrace 635-4971 3 BEDROOM HOME i Corner of Eby Street and Park Avanua. Situated on a large corner lot, close to Commercial davalopment. consider carrying 2nd mortgage. 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Phonenow for viewing. po Ed Diessner - 635-2089 Horst Godlinski - 635-5997 — Ron Earl . 7 Frank Skidmore - 635-5691 Hans Caulien - 635-3708 635-2612 TYR Oe, the aM bag pa tar oe ie tio Saw Sago ost Union has recently slated that Captain .or Mrs. Bill Young. | THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. million tor the cogls of general hospitals this year,’ added the Association. ‘Approximately $250 million of thal will be for the wages, salaries and other benefits of employees,” _ “The Association said the escalation of. hospital costs should be a deep concern to ery citizen because the economy may soon be reaching a point where ils elasticity is exhausted. . “The Hospital Employees some hospital administrators © lack confidence in this association. This is a complete misinterpretation of the situation. The administrators are simply infitely frustrated by the actions of HEU and certain economic facts that the union does not seem to recognize. 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