The union that represents housekeeping staff with NL Health Services in Corner Brook does NOT agree with contracting out

Earlier this week, we heard that NL Health Services plans to hire a private cleaning company to work at one of its facilities. The plan is to contract out housekeeping at the old hospital in Corner Brook which will become a clinic when the new Western Memorial Regional Hospital opens on June 2. NL Health Services officials told CBC that it needs all of its current housekeeping staff at the new hospital. So the health authority will hire a private company as a short-term temporary measure, to ensure that it can provide vacation time to its regular unionized staff. Sherry Hillier is president of CUPE NL, that union that represents housekeeping staff in the Western zone.