On Thursday at 10 a.m., the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will release a study by Simon Fraser University economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen on the effects of health privatization on women workers and their wages.
March 8 is International Women’s Day.
What: HEU releases study of health privatization’s impact on women’s wages and pay equity
Who: Marjorie Griffin Cohen, SFU economist Shelagh Day, human rights expert and advocate Mary-Woo Sims, former BC Chief Commissioner for Human Rights Debbie Boyle, front-line health care worker Zorica Bosancic, HEU’s Assistant Secretary-Business Manager
When: 10 am Thursday, March 6, 2003
Where: Granville A room Plaza 500 Hotel Cambie and 12th Avenue
Microphone feeds will be available. The study will be posted at www.heu.org
-30- Contact: Patty Gibson, communications officer, 604-328-7393 (cell)