[LabComm] HEU e-bulletin: Laid-off care aides rallied Saturday against privatization of seniors' personal health care

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HEU E-bulletin

June 16, 2003

Laid-off care aides and their supporters rallied Saturday against privatization of seniors' personal health care


Dozens of supporters joined Willingdon Park care aides - the first health care workers delivering direct patient care to have their jobs contracted out in B.C. - at a Saturday morning rally to voice their opposition to this latest threat to public health care and the risk it presents for seniors in long-term care facilities. 

The care aides, members of the Hospital Employees' Union (CUPE), have been campaigning against the privatizing of their work - bathing, grooming, dressing and feeding the 95 seniors who live in this privately operated, but publicly funded, facility. 

As evidenced by the 10,000-name petition presented to Burnaby council last week, the campaign to support quality seniors' care and stop the privatization of direct patient care is gaining momentum and community wide support. 

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