Heath Care Budget Cutbacks - The Effect on the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives158993
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- January 13, 1976 - November 24, 1977
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Location
- W7 B4 F67 1
- W7 B4 F67 2
- W7 B4 F67 3
- W7 B4 F67 4
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
- Creator
- St. Thomas Times-Journal
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2008-01
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- W7 B4 F67 1
- W7 B4 F67 2
- W7 B4 F67 3
- W7 B4 F67 4
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- January 13, 1976 - November 24, 1977
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : 19.3 x 10.7 cm
- 1 photograph : 14.4 x 11.5 cm
- 1 photograph : 18.9 x 12.9 cm
- 1 photograph : 18.9 x 11.7 cm
- 16 newspaper clippings
- Scope and Content
- Black and white photograph used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published February 7, 1976 with caption: "Name Of The Game - Administrator James Wilson of the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital told a crowd of about 500 persons during two meetings Friday afternoon that the name of the game at the hospital is "survival." A total of 151 job positions have been cut, effective April 1, but only 89 of the total involve the termination of employees. The other jobs became vacant through attrition in anticipation of the cutbacks." (1)
- Black and white photograph used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published February 18, 1976 with caption: "Protest Cutbacks - Elgin MPP Ron McNeil, centre, signs a petition that began circulating at a public meeting Tuesday to find ways of fighting the scheduled layoff of 89 employees at St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital April 1. Ald. Helen LeFrank, chairman of the meeting, and Jim Bromley, president of Local 114, Ontario, Public Service Employees' Union, representing the workers, assist the veteran Conservative MPP, who has been outspoken in his criticism of the way the Davis government has handled the cutbacks. About 250 persons, mostly hospital employees or their families, attended the meeting." (2)
- Two black and white photographs used in St. Thomas Times-Journal article published November 24, 1977 with captions:
- "OPSEU Members Express Dissatisfaction - Members of Local 114 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) marched up and down the roadside in front of St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, their place of employment, yesterday. They were joined by members of OPSEU throughout Ontario in their protest against government spending cutbacks." (3a)
- "Protest - Employees of the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital belonging to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Local 114, held a demonstration on the roadside outside the hospital yesterday. They were among about 3,500 OPSEU members across Ontario who demonstrated against government spending cutbacks." (3b)
- Miscellaneous newspaper clippings ca. January 13, 1976 - November 23, 1977 surrounding how the government's health care budget cutbacks affect the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital and its employees.
- Subject Access
- Newspapers
- Hospitals
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