In another article about Peterborough Regional Health Centre management’s attempt to target the hospital’s female clerical workers with a wage freeze, The Peterborough Examiner is reporting that part-timers will be hardest hit.
“Most of the clerical workers at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) who are about to see their wages frozen work part-time (average 22.5 hours a week), according to the union that represents them,” the Examiner reports, adding a mention of OPSEU’s radio ads about the wage freeze
It’s unfair and even “sexist” to freeze the wages of these women workers, says Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) provincial president Smokey Thomas in the radio ad.
“Peter McLaughlin’s $400,000 salary has gone up 21 per cent in three years,” Thomas is heard saying in the ad. “But the people doing the vital clerical work at the hospital have had their wages frozen.”
He adds that it’s “sexist” and “wrong” for the hospital to freeze the wages of these women workers.