Around the same time that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government announced a freeze on public service recruitment, 26 beneficiary attendant positions and seven administrative agent positions were eliminated at the University of Quebec Hospital Center. Montreal (CHUM).
Posted at 10:48 a.m.
Katrine Desautels
The Canadian Press
Certain services were to be excluded from the government’s measure which aims to slow down the growth in the number of employees in the public service, including health establishments.
The CHUM employees’ union (SECHUM-CSN) confirmed Monday morning that the job cuts “were imposed as part of the government’s budgetary recovery policies.” He joins his voice to that of the Federation of Health and Social Services (FSSS-CSN), the Central Council of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM-CSN) as well as the spokesperson for Québec solidaire in health matters, Vincent Marissal , to demand that the eliminated positions be reinstated at the hospital center.
They also ask the CAQ to stop reducing spending on health and social services.
The president of the CHUM employees’ union, Anick Mailhot, denounced in a press release that the cuts are causing the workload to accumulate for the nursing staff still on the job.
“The attendant ratio went from 4 to 3 on all care units, including the emergency room. We have already noticed an increase in incidents and accidents,” she laments.
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