LABR 3Q97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Public Management, Enriched Uranium, Union Blockade

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 3Q97
• Professor: Leslie Nichols

Document Summary

Ontario has the second lowest ratio of rns to patients in canada. 1960s and 1970s during widespread public sector unionism, nurses formed unions beyond their professional organizations. In late 1970s health care faced government cut backs including: Wage freezes, reduction of services, fragmentation of work, privatization, contracting out of food and cleaning services, movement towards part-time precarious work from full-time work. Total expenditure of public good variety of amount. Alberta 40. 3% of budget spent on healthcare compared to 16. 6% in yukon. Do(cid:272)tors" salaries represe(cid:374)t a(cid:374) disproportio(cid:374)ate amount of these expenditures. Nurses" (cid:449)ork has fa(cid:272)ed a(cid:272)ute reorga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d restru(cid:272)turi(cid:374)g. Yet, nursing work is compounded by pressures of shortages and pressures for overtime. Lot of individuals willing to work these jobs. People filling in gap with overtime but not getting paid for it. At the end of each shift nurses must transfer patients to the next nurse but if it is after their shift they are not paid for it.