Court Says Anesthesiologists Can’t Withdraw Services
Friday, March 30, 2012 @ 3:53 PM
Vancouver, B.C.- The B.C. Supreme Court today told the BC Anesthesiologists’ Society its members cannot withdraw services from B.C. hospitals, at least not until after the judge rules on April 20 on an injunction request from health authorities.
The decision means no elective procedures or surgeries will be postponed as previously expected, starting Monday, April 2, 2012. All patients with scheduled procedures should proceed as planned.
April 2 had initially been identified by B.C. anesthesiologists for start of withdrawal of services. To prepare for such an action, health authorities had sent over 3,200 letters to patients warning of potential scheduling disruptions.
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All they need to do is book off sick!
Amazing. These people aren’t even a union.
They are members of the BC Medical Association. Call it a professional association, call it a union, it does not matter.
The BCMA hase several agreements with the government. Some or all are up for renegotiation this year.
Highlights of the physician master agreement
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/legislation/pdf/2007_PMA_Highlights.pdf
The rest of the information starts here:
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/msp/legislation/bcmaagree.html
The federal government requires that the provinces provide health care for their citizens.
The BC government has an agreement with the people of the province to provide health care under the Medical Services Plan.
The doctors are part of the system which the province relies on to provide those services.
The province is caught between a rock and a hard place. :-)
They might as well give this group a raise in pay, along with every other group due for a raise. Our cost of living is going to continue to rise regardless of whether or not the government drags this out like they are doing with the teachers. Thanks to corporate greed we will all need more pay just to stay at whatever level we are currently at. From minimum wage, to pensioners, and everyone in between, the purchasing power our wages provide is steadily eroding. Big Oil and Big Ag are going to continue to demand more profit every quarter, that will never change.
All we can do is try to get by with what we have and what we get, and hope for an increase in compensation ourselves.
metalman.
“Thanks to corporate greed we will all need more pay just to stay at whatever level we are currently at”
I understand that has been a downhill battle for a decade and more.
The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer resulting in an ever widening gap.
The middle class are a vanishing breed!
All part of the new world order.
There never was a “middle class” of much importance for centuries.
The creation of that middle class was actually part of the new world order.
In medieval Europe, for instance, there were three classes – Church, nobles, serfs ….
The middle class of today arose with the industrial revolution.
By going back to a reduced middle class, we are going back to classic times. It is an attempt to go back in time to the OLD world order.
http://dailyreckoning.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-middle-class
An interesting account of the Ford Plant in Pittsburgh.
Even the economic point of view presented at the end is interesting.
I am not sure if one can repeat history. I am inclined to think that we are in new times and we have to apply solutions for today.
Who is the Henry Ford of today or the last couple of decades? For some reason or other many do not immediately think of Bill Gates and similar people. Yet that modern industrial cluster has been as powerful, if not more so, as the birth of the automotive industry and has touched everything we do even moreso.
This is what makes the middle class such a sturdy lot if it is a fight that is required then we will probably have to fight for a few of our own because they don’t want to get hurt so that’s ok.
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