Health Syndicate launches: “785 people get paid to spread chaos in the hospital”

This equates to 785 people being released each day to perform their union job in the health network, according to data obtained by TVA Nouvelles.

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It is a number that political analysts consider very large.

“785 people get paid to go and make a mess in the hospital (…) and who pays for that? They are the taxpayers. Already Jean Charest told me one day that the problem is that when the time comes to appoint a director for a hospital, you have to find someone with good connections With the guild,” Luc Lavoie laments.

On several occasions since the start of private consultations on his reform, the Minister for Health and Social Services, Christian Dube, has tried to grill unions about the importance of these union holidays.

“The only objective Mr. Dobbie wanted to put forward was that there is a big machine that feeds the monster of conflicting labor relations in this healthy network. We have to clean up so that there are a few fewer, until we arrive at a more reasonable number,” says Emmanuel Latravers.

According to Yasmine Abdel-Fadil, the release of these unions affects even the negotiations of collective agreements.

“When the FIQ comes out to say there’s nothing to care for, that’s not really what motivates them on a day-to-day basis. They have to keep and protect these 800 people, set them free with thousands of hours, and that’s what ensures they continue to exist,” said the political columnist. .

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