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Heather Farrow

CUPE releases report on the state of long term care in Saskatchewan | CUPE Saskatchewan - 0 views

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cupe Saskatchewan ltc research

shared by Heather Farrow on 09 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Posted on July 11, 2016
  • REGINA: A new report from the CUPE Saskatchewan Health Care Council shows that understaffing and workload are critical issues in continuing care in this province.
Cheryl Stadnichuk

Review gives good marks to surgical speed-up | Regina Leader-Post - 1 views

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private clinics SK wait times

shared by Cheryl Stadnichuk on 27 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Adjust Comment Print Janice MacKinnon remembers NDP-leaning friends who were aghast at the prospect of private surgical clinics in the home of medicare — until they actually used them. The clinics worked and they’ve cut Saskatchewan’s surgical wait times from the longest in the country to the shortest, said MacKinnon, who gave the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative a positive review in a Fraser Institute study released Tuesday.
  • MacKinnon said there were other important elements, like a Supreme Court decision that told governments, “if you have a monopoly on the service, you have to provide it in a timely way.” As well, the government had just received Tony Dagnone’s “Patient First” report that, as she interpreted it, said health care should be done for the benefit of patients, not for others in the system — like doctors, nurses, hospital staff, and their unions. She said the government followed up by bringing into the initiative working groups of physicians, nurses and hospital managers, all encouraged to focus on speeding up the process for patients.
  • MacKinnon contrasted this with an attempt at cutting wait times in the 1990s that went nowhere because health-care unions told the public that changes wouldn’t work. The surgical initiative, one the other hand, went over the unions’ heads to the public itself. Health Minister Duncan Duncan acknowledged Tuesday wait times have lengthened in recent months, particularly in the Regina and Saskatoon health regions, and reflecting increased demand. “We’ll be mindful of that in this fiscal year, when the budget comes out,” he said, adding “we don’t want to lose the ground that we did gain.”
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  • MacKinnon also challenged two frequent criticisms of private clinics: that they’d cream off the easiest surgeries and steal the best staff. Instead, she says surgeries were assigned by health regions and clinics hired retired nurses and nurse practitioners who liked the better hours and low-hassle atmosphere. She noted that surgeries — which covered only an array of specialties, not a complete list of surgeries — came in 26 per cent cheaper than in hospitals. “I think it was extremely well done.” Only in Canada, she said, would there be any fuss over who owns the clinics providing service in a single-payer system, MacKinnon said.
  • Cheryl Stadnichuk on 27 Apr 16
     
    Former SK NDP Finance Minister Janice MacKinnon is now shilling for the Fraser Institute promoting private clinics to reduce surgical wait times. The root problem of wait times if the structure and funding of Medicare, she says.
Irene Jansen

New surgery and outpatient centre planned for southern Sask. - 0 views

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surgery specialty clinics sk

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Heather Farrow

First Annual CUPE Saskatchewan Labour Day Ride for Respect | CUPE Saskatchewan - 0 views

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cupe Saskatchewan campaign

shared by Heather Farrow on 25 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Posted on July 22, 2016
  • This Labour Day, CUPE Saskatchewan is inviting members who ride motorcycle to join in the first annual Labour Day Ride for Respect on September 5, 2016. The Ride for Respect is dedicated to promote respect for workers and their rights. Participating motorcycle riders will travel between Labour Day celebrations hosted by unions in Regina and Saskatoon.
Heather Farrow

CUPE Health Care Council launches radio campaign on seniors' care | CUPE Saskatchewan - 0 views

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cupe Saskatchewan ltc campaign

shared by Heather Farrow on 09 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Posted on February 25, 2016
  • The issue of seniors’ care continues to be at the top of mind for many Saskatchewan citizens.  In response to this concern, the CUPE Health Care Council has launched a radio ad calling for a minimum standard of care. “Our members are doing the best they can with limited time,” said Gordon Campbell, CUPE Health Care Council president.  “But with the current staffing levels, our members barely have time to take care of residents’ basic needs and have no time to support their emotional and social needs.”
Irene Jansen

Locals advocate for Prince Albert laundry jobs - News - The Prince Albert Daily Herald - 1 views

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laundry sk contracting out

shared by Irene Jansen on 07 May 12 - No Cached
  • Prince Albert-based North Sask Laundry could have taken on the Saskatoon Health Region’s full load of laundry, North Sask Laundry's general manager said this week.
  • This goes against Saskatoon Health Region vice-president of finance Nilesh Kavia’s assertion in Friday’s edition of the Daily Herald that “There is no single facility in Saskatchewan that can process that much.”
  • On Thursday, April 26, Dogniez was forced to announce layoffs at North Sask Laundry to the tune of 29 temporary full time equivalent positions.
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  • Saskatoon Health Region’s decision to begin trucking Prince Albert’s share of their laundry to Calgary-based K-Bro Lynen Systems.
  • Mayor Jim Scarrow took a moment prior to Friday’s sod turning of the Pineview Terrace Lodge long-term care facility in Prince Albert to urge McMorris's reconsideration of North Sask Laundry
  • “We have lots of room here in Prince Albert to expand the regional hospital laundry services,” Scarrow said. “Lots of room, and those (29) jobs would be very important to the province and the city of Prince Albert … You’ll be hearing from us shortly.”
  • K-Bro Linen Systems is a for-profit Calgary-based business. North Sask Laundry is a non-profit government-funded organization in Prince Albert. 
Irene Jansen

Saskatchewan sets high bar for health care - Saskatchewan - CBC News - 0 views

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accord sk wall

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • "When I go to Victoria, I won't have an alliance with any other province. My alliance will be with the people of the province of Saskatchewan. I work for them,"
  • Wall has said that's "not unreasonable"
  • Flaherty said Ottawa plans to continue increasing health-transfer payments at six per cent annually for the next six years.
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  • The premier has repeatedly used the word "innovation" in health care since December
  • we're going to be going there to talk about better health care, not just wrangle over dollars."
  • Saskatchewan will be pushing for Ottawa to pony up money for a so-called Innovation Fund.
Irene Jansen

Saskatchewan to Pursue Patient First Transformation and Innovation - 0 views

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accord private clinics wages hhr sk

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • A co-ordinated approach to better manage cost and wage escalation while ensuring the right mix and number of health providers are being trained and deployed in Canada.
  • The needs of the patient, sustainability, and best practice and not ideology must guide the future of health care. Public funding will always be at the foundation of ensuring Canadians have access to health care. Expanding on the successes with private delivery in Saskatchewan's surgical initiative, further expansion of private sector involvement in the health system will occur.
Irene Jansen

Larry Hubich's Blog: Federation of Labour files legal argument in massive law suit agai... - 0 views

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bargaining charter sk

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Over the summer months, the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and 25 additional plaintiffs (SFL et al) filed their legal argument in the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench related to the Charter Challenge by the SFL et al against the Sask. Party government's unconstitutional anti-worker and anti-union legislation.  Legislation which the Wall government introduced and passed in late 2007 and early 2008.
  • In support of the SFL et al's case, three additional intervenor unions filed thousands more pages of argument and evidence.  The arguments of the intervenor unions re-inforced that the ill-conceived Bill 5 and Bill 6 violate workers constitutional rights as outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. 
  • The intervenor unions are:  Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE); Service Employees International Union - West (SEIU-West); and the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN)
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  • This historic Charter Challenge case will be heard in the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench from November 14 - 25th, 2011.
Irene Jansen

Clinic MD quits amid conflict of interest questions - Saskatchewan - CBC News - 0 views

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private clinics sk

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The medical director of Saskatchewan's newest private surgical clinic has resigned before the facility even opens, amid questions about an apparent conflict of interest
  • CBC News started asking questions about how Ogrady could be working for a private clinic, while he remains head of the surgery department at Regina General Hospital
  • Ogrady has been head of the hospital's surgery department for the past 11 years
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  • The plan is still for SCI to start performing surgeries by February, 2012, the company says.
Irene Jansen

SUN 2011 Innovators Conference Sept 27 2011 Regina - 0 views

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conference nursing sk fromdelicious

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12
     
    May be an interesting conference considering SUN's possible close relationship with ruling provincial "conservative" party. Also considering recent "primary care" campaign.
Irene Jansen

Sask. weighs in on health funding plan - Saskatchewan - CBC News - 0 views

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accord waits privatization diktat sk

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Wall said there could be other opportunities to get more money based on innovation, such as reducing wait times. He said he will talk more about this at a premieres meeting in January.
Irene Jansen

Sask. weighs in on health funding plan - Saskatchewan - CBC News - 0 views

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accord diktat sk wall

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Premier Brad Wall says the federal government’s new health care funding plan is frustrating.
  • "I think the process is unfortunate," he said. "I think the finance ministers were hoping for a beginning of a round of consultations and at least on the transfer piece it does not appear to be what the federal government is doing."
  • Wall said he would like a chance to negotiate a separate stream of money coming from Ottawa that is based on results. "Our province has always said it can't just be about money, it's got to be about better outcomes for patients," Wall said. "That will be our message to the federal government." Wall said there could be other opportunities to get more money based on innovation, such as reducing wait times.
Govind Rao

Nova Scotia Nurses are Pulling the Red Cord - 0 views

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from heather NS nurses legislation strike

shared by Govind Rao on 08 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • April 3rd, 2014 CCPA-NS
  • Nurses in Nova Scotia are on the picket lines today in a legal strike. They are expected to be out until the government passes essential services legislation. Bill 37, Essential Health and Community Services Act, is a sly attempt to achieve two things: Effectively remove the right to strike (the legislation itself anticipates this by referring, in Section 15, to “depriving the employees in the bargaining unit of a meaningful right to strike,” and Avoid the substitute – interest arbitration on issues in dispute. So at one and the same time, it cuts the unions off at the knees AND offers no fair way to resolve disrupted negotiations, as prescribed by numerous international conventions to which Canada is signatory.
  • Several years ago, Judy Haiven and I wrote a monograph entitled: Health Care Strikes: Pulling the Red Cord.  In it, we argue that the techniques of Japanese lean production had been imported into North American industry, into public services and into health care.  If you doubt it, just take a look at the plans to transform health care in Saskatchewan. At least the classical Ohno model gives workers the power to warn if the system is faltering by pulling a yellow cord.  And if it becomes dysfunctional workers can stop the production line by pulling a red cord.
Govind Rao

User-pay MRI legislation will reduce access and only increase wait lists | CUPE Saskatc... - 0 views

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from heather cupe Saskatchewan diagnostics privatization private clinics

shared by Govind Rao on 11 May 15 - No Cached
  • Posted on May 6, 2015
  • The introduction of user-pay MRI scan legislation by the Government of Saskatchewan is the beginning of two-tier health care, says CUPE. “Allowing those able to pay for private MRI scans to get access to health care more quickly – regardless of need – is the introduction of two-tier health care,” said Tom Graham, President of CUPE Saskatchewan. “While those with large wallets can get MRIs quickly, the rest of us will have to wait.”
Govind Rao

Conferences | CUPE Saskatchewan - 0 views

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from heather cupe Saskatchewan privatization conference

shared by Govind Rao on 17 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • KEEP SASKATCHEWAN PUBLIC – ACTIVIST TRAINING CONFERENCE APRIL 20 – 21, 2015 (Saskatoon, SK)
Irene Jansen

A step backwards for workers' rights in Saskatchewan - 2 views

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sk deregulation labour standards cleaners union

shared by Irene Jansen on 18 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • the government has eliminated successor rights for cafeteria, janitorial and security employees in government-owned buildings
  • Successor rights allow employees to keep their jobs as well as their union, collective agreement, wages, seniority and benefits when a new contractor takes over their work. By removing these rights only for cafeteria, janitorial and security staff the Saskatchewan Party is telling workers in these fields that they don’t even deserve the relatively meager wage they currently receive.
  • With the current rules, unionized cleaners, security and food service staff in public institutions usually make $12-17 an hour and receive some benefits.
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  • Driving down janitorial, security and food service workers wages, which will lead to a more transient workforce, may also compromise service. Evidence from England suggests that slashing hospital cleaners pay lowers cleaning standards and an increased incidence of hospital acquired infections.
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