The session is expected to last all day tomorrow with management outlining why there needs to be “job adjustments” or layoffs following the signing of a new 3 year contract.
Health unit spokesperson Drew Ferguson says the equivalent of 4 full-time jobs will be eliminated (could be a combo of full and part-time jobs equalling 4 full time)
He says the province is increasing the budget only 3%, while the Grey Bruce health unit expected a 5% hike.
Ferguson says a combination of the lower budget and increased efficiencies in the new building on the waterfront led to the need for cuts.
The new 3 year contract signed last year provides for wage increases of 3% in each year, but Ferguson says the 51 Public Health Nurses are actually getting more like 7.6 % more because of a compression of grids in the deal.
ONA President Linda Haslam Stroud will not be at the table tomorrow.
She has told Bayshore Broadcasting News that the Association threatened an injunction against the Grey Bruce health unit… over the potential layoffs.
Haslam-Stroud says up to 12 part time jobs are threatened.
She also threatened to file a bad faith bargaining charge with the Ministry of Labour and grievances under the current contract.
