Mailbox B.C. LOSING SKILLED WORKERS Health care deserves better deal Dear Editor: In response to your editorial about nurses and their possiole strike action 1 would Sike to pro- vide some informaticn about other health care workers, namely, the members of the Health Sciences Association (HSA). {ama medical technologist and a part of this union. Recently, dur- ing the week of June 9 to 12, we voted province-wide 83 per cent in favor of strike action. This is the highest vote in favor of strike ac- tion ever achieved. Why? The Health Labour Rela- tions Association (HLRA) has of- fered us 0, 1, and 2 per cent in- creases over the next three years with concession demands. This of- fer puts us further behind our col- leagues in other provinces. We are already about 14 per cent behind. Before the restraint period in B.C. this province had higher wages than others to attract people from elsewhere. This was because our province does not train enough health care professionals. We still do not train enough health care professionals and now wages are nat even comparable. Obviously this will lower health care standards in B.C. Firstly, it will increase the already existing staff shortages, for example, in physiotherapists. Secondly, vacant positions will be filled with inadequately trained staff. This is not good for HSA members or for the public.: « It takes years of education to provide the experience and respon- HIGH ETHICS ASSURED Financial planner dishikes insinuation Dear Editor: tread with interest Miss Smed- man’s article Become Your Own Financier (Money Matters, North Shore News, July 27), The article is nothing more than common sense but makes for good reading. However, it leads up to a sentence which J, as a professional financial planner, find offensive and objectionable. It insinuates that anyone engaged in the field of financial planning working on a commission basis may not have a client's ‘‘best intérest at heart’. Miss Smedman is implying, by apparently quoting a Ms. Carla Poppen, that financial planners working on a commission basis cannot be trusted, and that a pro- spective client should contact a planner working for an hourly fee. This, of course, is utter rubbish and a cunning way of drawing at- tention to this Ms. Carla Poppen, telephone number and all, who, | presume, is a financial planner woring on an houriy basis. I consider Ms. Poppen’s insinu- ation a personal attack on people like me who have a very high stan- dard of professional ethics, even though we work on a commission basis. Unlike a one-shot financial plan, a professional financial planner working on a commission basis will constantly upgrade his re- cords: your job or personal situa- tion may have changed, new laws affecting your investments may have been introduced, or the mar- ket situation has changed. Fur- thermore, new financial products may have appeared on the scene. Having a professie 21 financial planner working for you on a commission basis, can — and usually does — evolve into a mutually profitable relationship. The insinuations contained in Miss Smedman’s article are uncall- ed for and misleading and I trust you will set the record straight. Should you wish to be fair to me — besides, I am a regular advertis- er in your paper — you would tell your readers now that | have a phone, too, and can be reached at 921-9285 or 682-5431. Rudi G. Winter Qualified Financial Planner The Investors Group 'V ANCOUVER YMCA, = | : ; ” For international ‘Students © . ‘roomiboard or room/kitchen privileges _ . Starting September 6th Pisetth VANCOUVER, oe &. A. SO\Bays fork: etvice 27th year of service to tens of thousands of dornestic & foreign car & light truck owners I.C.BC. vendor BCAA approved A.R.A. certified Quality workmanship — Trustworthy service 174 Femberton Ave. N. Van. 985-7455 sibility which HSA members con- tribute in their work. Do salaries -ompensate us adequately? Well, judge for yourself. Com- pare annual stacting salaries from unionized workers: journeyman CGEWA) $39,061, ICBC claims ex- aminer $35,831, truck driver (Teamster) $31,949, B.C. Ferries terminal agent $31,596, meat cut- ter $30,721, HSA pharmacist 7 - Friday, August 22, $29,436, grocery store clerk $27,773, regisiered nurse (HCNU- HL. RA contract) $25,152, HSA physio occupational therapist $24,723, HSA registered technologists and and psych nurses 323,736. Doesn't health care in deserve a better deal? Monika L. Moclier North Vancouver BC, 1986 - North Shore News INTERDENOMINATIONAL SINGLES BIBLE the Pantry Restaurant 112 West 13th Street North Vancouver Sunday 9:00am-11:00am All Singles Welcome “Let's Talk It Over” Practical Subjects and Discussion For Information Call 980-3064 OCEAN PARK VILLAGE | THE FINEST IN RETIREMENT LIVING (Pictured outside the Clubhouse): © G Moone. ¢ 1 Foreman @W. 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