OPSEU claims the Board of Directors of the South Bruce Grey Health Centre won’t eat the food being given to patients at the Chesley hospital.
In a news release, the union says the Board of Directors met late last month in Chesley and, for the first time, ordered catered food from outside the facility.
Staff members were previously served home cooked meals from the hospital cafeteria at their board meetings.
The union represents the food service workers, and says this demonstrates what its’ members have been saying about re-thermed food.
OPSEU President Warren ‘Smokey’ Thomas says , “No wonder the hospital CEO would not accept our challenge; the people who made this decision have no intention of eating the food themselves.”
Last month Thomas challenged hospital CEO Paul Davies to eat the food for a week.
Although Davies declined the challenge, he did admit he would lose weight eating the food.
In late November, the hospital announced that they will no longer be microwaving the food, which they say was often overcooked or undercooked. The hospital says it will be moving to a convection-style oven system for Chesley and Durham which have converted to the re-thermed food structure.
OPSEU says it is yet another setback for a system that was badly flawed from the start.
The union says the hospital should scrap its plan completely and make use of Ministry of Agriculture grants to bring in fresh locally-grown food instead.
