Ms. Gloria O'Rourke

Ms. Gloria O'RourkeVice President & Chief Human Resource Officer

Speakers included Irene's successor as Chairperson of the Manitoba Council of Health Care Unions, Joe Ahrens, Union Centre Board Chair, John Irvine, Counsel Richard Deeley and Gloria O'Rourke, Vice-President of Human resources for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

Gloria O'Rourke, vice-president with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, says the reason the award is so high is that the arbitrator compared the doctor's pay rates in other provinces.

Manitoba came in dead last.

"We were in a difficult position with them being at the bottom," she says."The arbitrator chose to take sort of a Canadian average for them, but it's based on a catch-up which we've seen in a couple of other areas, other sectors in health care, like nurses."

O'Rourke says the increase will cost double what the WRHA had expected to pay - about $3 million.

"I think you have to put it in context, as we're trying to do, with the fact that these individuals are residents in Manitoba, we're at the bottom of the pack," says O'Rourke."Completely at the bottom of the pack, nationally.

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"We recognized we were at the bottom of the scale and expected the arbitrator would come up a little higher," said Gloria O'Rourke, the authority's chief human resource officer.

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