So, Maxwells 19% increase last year that was kept secret until now is due to "recruitment and retention issues in the north". Sounds like verbal diarehea to me. Lets take that line of reasoning a little further and give skilled tradesmen, doctors, nurses, all other CEO's a 19% wage increase retroactive to last year when Mr. Maxwell got his. Some spin doctor is sure earning his money at Northern Health.

"The CBC is reporting Northern Health CEO Malcom Maxwell got a 19 % wage hike pushing his annual salary to $250 thousand dollars while six other top managers with Northern Health got wage hikes of between 7 and 24%."

Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs to make over $ 20,000 a MONTH plus benefits!

It is, in my opinion, utterly disrespectful of working people and the taxpayers!

A retired person lives on $ 12,000 dollars per YEAR (CPP + OAS).

It is unbelievable!

This kind of thing has happened before, so it doesn't surprise me. Its a disgrace, for sure, and it should make negotiations for health care workers interesting. Don't expect it to have anything to do with the final agreement though, after all, "Do as I say, not as I do!"

And this is why we have a health care problem to many administraters and what isn't in this report is that each of these administraters has asistants making $50,000 plus per year.

25 yrs ago--1 admiistrator, 1 director of nursing, a couple of secretaries and 500 beds for PGRH.
Now --tens of administrators, zillions of secretaries (sorry! that should be admistrative assistants), hundreds of "quality assurance committees" which have nothing to do with quality of patient care but simply make sure that everything stays within the budget,and somewhere around 200 beds. Not only that, we need at least two extra buildings to house the administrators, et al!!
We've been fighting for a year to get some equipment that Williams Lake Hospital has had for years. Even sent some patients down there for treatment.
And then there's the really big smokescreen -- THE ALMIGHTY WAITING LIST.This is an amazing sleight of hand, i.e. thatif the waiting list is fixed, Eutopia will be here. In this town, if the wait list for 3 of our orthopedic surgeons was taken care of, those 3 docs have a waiting list in their offices of 6000 patients right now. Then we'll have a new waiting list! In other words, THE ALMIGHTY WAITING LIST,is a smokescreen to cover the fact that the system is totally -----d Increase supplies, manpower, OR facilities and anything else by 19% and most of that will go to administration to make sure that the remaining few bucks are being properly spent. So, what the hell, cut out the rest and give the whole 19% to the administrators and they can form more committees to find ways of turning patients into $$$$'s.They already have to look 'patient' up in the dictionary. God help us!!

And this is the health care system that so many want to protect.

When are we going to recognize that pouring more money into a system that isn't working is not the solution.

More wages does not reduce work load. More money for Doctors does not reduce waiting lists for patients. More money for our health care workers does not increase the number of beds we need. It doesn't change anything except our financial burden. Percy

And the working person gets screwed again while the rich get richer. Of course they have to pay management all the money for doing such a great job of scewing workers and making their jobs miserable. Cost of living only goes up for the elite while the worker goes backwards. Thanks Campbell and crew lying again as usual.

doc: "Not only that, we need at least two extra buildings to house the administrators, et al!!
We've been fighting for a year to get some equipment that Williams Lake Hospital has had for years. Even sent some patients down there for treatment."

Gee, is this for real?

Waiting lists are often kept as long as possible on purpose! Suppose a person is hired to handle a certain amount of correspondence, having an IN basket and an OUT basket on his desk.

Well, if the boss sees the IN basket EMPTY she may get the idea that the employee is underemployed.

An empty IN basket may trigger the workload to be increased, perhaps without an increase in pay!

Therefore, it is important for job security to have always have a big pile of letters in the IN basket which really represents a..... Waiting List!

And ask for an assistant if at all possible. That means that your pay goes up because a supervisor must get a raise to reflect the new extra workload.

Cheers!