MGRTH A VAT

COUYER

Apecil 30. 1989

News GAS-2431 Classified 986-6222

Distribsrion YS6-$327 56 pages

MEWS photo Terry Peters

FIRST-YEAR Brownies from the North Vancouver 25th pack try their hand at door-to-door sales as a warm-up for this week’s cookie blitz.
Brownies and Girl Guides from across the North Shore will be selling Girl Guide cookies until May 5.

45 FULL-TIME EGUIVALENT POSITIONS MAY BE AXED

GH unions protest
possible service cuts

LIONS GATE Hospital unions staged a noon-hour rally
Friday at the North Shore health facility to protest possible
cuts to LGH community health services and the elimination
of up to 45 full-time equivalent positions at the hospital.

The rally at the hospital's 13th
Street entrance followed morning
distribution of information leaflets
to the public by members of the
Hospital Employees’ Union

By FIMOTHY RE
News Reporter

(HEU), the Health Sciences
Association (HSA) and the British

Columbia Nurses’ Union (BCNU)
at the SeaBus station and
elsewhere around the North Shore.

Unions represent approximately
96 per cent of LGH’s 2,300
workers.

But hospital president Robert
Smith said Friday no programs
have yet been cut ‘‘and we are
continuing to review all operations

of the hospital so that we can
deliver the programs in the best
way possible."”

He added, though, that changes
are coming.

“4 don’t think
dreams,’ Smith said, ‘‘that
enough money will be coming
from Victoria to allow us to leave
all things the same."”

in my wildest

Though LGH is anticipating the
provincial government will raise
the 734-bed hospital’s current $68
million basic budget by five per
cent to $71.5 million in the 1989-90
fiscal year, increasing medical
costs and hospital workload will

See Service
Page 3