Decision at Sunnyside

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32873, 23 March 1972, Page 10

Decision at Sunnyside

A meeting of about 150 workers at Sunnyside Hospital oh Tuesday unanimously resolved that they would refuse to join any trade union apart from the. Public Service Association, the chairman of the P.S.A. sub-group at the hospital (Mr G. R. Benson) said yesterday. Mr Benson said that at least 200 and perhaps 300 workers at Sunnyside would come under the provisions of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act if the transfer was carried out as proposed. The only ones apart from the nursing staff who would stay with the P.S.A. would be recreation officers. Workers such as the laundry workers who were now on equal pay would be given allowances of $9OO to $lOOO to cover the difference if a straight transfer was made, but as award pay increases were granted this allowance would be effectively reduced, said Mr Benson. “Staff other than nurses will get only cost-of-living increases and general wage orders,” said Mr Benson. “The nurses will stay with the P.S.A., but there will be a serious loss of conditions.”