Over the past twenty-five years, governments that operate publicly-funded health care systems have endeavored to modernize service delivery and to control health spending. This has occasioned high profile efforts to reform and restructure previously stable health systems. Health organizations are typically complex, labour intensive and unionized. Health reform can have enormous consequences for workers and their unions. Governments' ideologies determine the nature of reform initiatives. This book examines the experiences of five jurisdictions - Great Britain, New Zealand, New South Wales, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Author(s): Kurt Wetzel
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 224
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Health Service Reform and the Modernization of Employment Relations: The Case of the United Kingdom......Page 23
3 Health Labour Relations and the New Zealand Revolution......Page 58
4 The Canadian Context......Page 97
5 The Labour Relations of Saskatchewan's Health Reform......Page 102
6 Health Labour Relations in the Klein Era......Page 138
7 The Labour Relations of Public Health Care Reform in New South Wales......Page 173
8 Comparative Analysis and Conclusions......Page 209
B......Page 234
E......Page 235
H......Page 236
N......Page 237
P......Page 238
S......Page 239
U......Page 240
W......Page 241
