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DOCTOR Aly Somani, of the Thorsen Health Centre,
performs an initial chiropractic check on health cen-
tre program director Lynda Thorsen. The North
Vancouver centre held an open house on Nov. 18.

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

worker contract a go

COMMUNITY health care
workers from nine unions
. voted earlier this month 81%
“to ratify a new collective agree-
ment with the Health
Employers’ Association of BC
(HEABC).

The agreement covers about 14,000
women and men who provide commu-
nity based health care.

They include home support workers,
and people who work in drug and alco-
ho! treatment centres, adult day care,
detox and emergency shelters, womens’
clinics, services to seniors, mental
health group homes and regional health

units.

“This was 2 cough set of
negotiations. But we have achieved a
fair and acceptable contract for the
women and men who work every day
to make it possible for thousands of
British Columbians to live with dignity
in their own homes and communities,”
said Cliff Andstein, spokesman
for the multi-union bargaining associa-
tion.

The key provisions of the three-year
contract include significant improve-
ments to wages and benefits, employ-
ment security, scheduling of hours for
home support workers, hours of work,
workplace health and safety, and break-
through provisions for job evaluation

and classification.

The agreement also maintains the
terms of conditions for workers who
transferred into the community sector
through devolution of municipal health
departments and the Ministry of
Health.

“Community health-care workers
have traditionally been well behind
other health-care workers in terms of
wages and benefits, and working condi-
tions,” Andstein said.

“With the strong support of our”

members in a strike vote, and a half day
strike in July, we were able to make sig-
nificant gains.

“This contract gocs a long way
towards eliminating inequities.”

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We would like your comments.

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your comments about how the program can be improved to better serve the public and continue to

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