Nurses get a raise
Posted Nov 9, 2010 10:24:12 AM.
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A union says an independent arbitrator has awarded pay raises to about 17,000 nurses and other hospital workers, despite Ontario’s public sector wage freeze.
The Service Employees International Union says the decision means nurses and staff at more than 60 hospital sites will get raises in line with inflation.
The union adds hospital officials were also given a deadline of 60 days to start taking steps to address nursing shortages.
In a statement today, the union says the ruling means the wage freeze is dead.
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s spring budget called for a two-year freeze on wages for public sector workers to help fight a record provincial deficit.
The province has also frozen the pay of non-unionized public servants.
