The Privatization of Health Care Cleaning Services in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada: Union Responses to Unprecedented Government Actions

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 195-213

  Cohen, Marcy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

HEU's organizing drive; HEU, history and character; HEU, largest health care union in BC; Making privatization a reality; Organizing privatized housekeepers; Privatization of housekeeping services in BC; Southwestern BC, Canada, privatization of health care cleaning; Sweatshop like conditions for workers; Unprecedented government actions, and union responses

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EID: 70450263787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397406.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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