Health unions craft a deal UNIONIZED HEALTH care workers here may never know if their jobs were to be contracted out or privatized; Instead, the Northern Health Authority may have avoided the task to some degree thanks to a tenta- tive province-wide cost saving deal struck last week between the provin- cial government and major health care unions, That deal provides for a measure of unionized worker job security in re- turn for workers giving up on wage increases and other benefits. As it is, the Northern Health Authority never did contract out or privatize any of its services to save money. To date, it has met fi- . nancial restraint goals by reducing worker hours, en- couraging early retire- ments and by transferring people. The authority has also trimmed its management layer. “We have investigated it several times,” said health authority official Mark Karjaluoto of con- tracting out and privatiza- tion. Although it has not done so to date, Karjaluoto did not know if any such plans were to be included in the budget year that started April 1. “The business plan for the year is still ongoing and costs are: going up,” he said. “This framework could have an impact on it.” The framework will see union members give up about $500 million in wages and other benefits over the next three years.- Pay equity raises will.” be set aside, for example. And starting Sept. 30, the work week is increas- ing from 36 hours to 37.5— with no increase in pay. In return, the provincial government — negotiating for health care authorities — will cap the number of positions that can be con- — tracted out. That cap works out to the equivalent of 3,500 full time employees. What that figure means - in the north compared to the south, where contract- ing out has already taken place, has yet to be deter- mined. But the figure is less- than union estimates of losing up to the equivale- net of 13,600 full time equivalent jobs. There will be an en- hanced severance package retroactive to Jan. 29 of 2002 and health care con- tracts will not expire in March 2006. The affected unions are the Hospital Employees’ Union, the B.C. and Gov- ernment and Service Em- ployees’ Union and the In- ternational Union of Operating Engineers. , Mike Old of the Hospi- tal Employees’ Union said the union did not want to make the deal. “The government left us with no where to go,” said Old of legislation allowing public sector agencies to contract out. Local chosen TERRACE BUSINESS- MAN John Critchley has been named the Kitimat- Stikine regional district's representative to the soc- icty which operates the airport. Critchley replaces Ken Earl. He will serve out the remainder of Earl’s two-: year term, which con-, cludes at the society's an- nual general meeting in June. At thai time, the regio- nal district board may re- appoint Critchley to serve - another two-year term end-+ ing at the society’s AGM. in 2005. B2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 23, 2003 @ Scoping things out A $4,326.01 cheque from the Keystone of Life Foundation, a charity run by the Royal Arch Masons has gone toward purchasing a laprascope for Mills Memorial Hospital. A camera can be attached to the device, allow- ing surgeans to see inside while doing surgery. It means far less invasive procedures so that patients undergoing ball bladder surgery, for instance, are operated on in the morning and can go home the same day. Holding the device, from the left, are Norman Monro, the Grand First Principal of Masons in B.C. and Yukon, who is from Powell River, Mason Jim Elton from North Vancouver and Northern Health Authority official Cholly Ba- land. 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