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St. Patrice Ennis, President of the Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (UTASP)
The group of healthcare workers from the western region who protested this week over several longstanding concerns in relation to welfare and working conditions are back on the job.
The workers include medical technologists, laboratory technical assistants and lab attendants at Cornwall Regional Hospital along with medical technologists, health records clerks and technicians at Savanna-la-Mar Hospital who staged two days of industrial action.
St. Patrice Ennis, President of the Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel (UTASP), says timelines for the resolution of the outstanding issues were provided Tuesday by the Western Regional Health Authority.
"Late yesterday evening the ministry had instructed the Western Regional Health Authority to make some commitment and that be received by way of a letter committing to timelines in terms of implementing some of the issues that are outstanding. But in addition to that, the Western Regional Health Authority management, in particular the Human Resource Department, is to meet with the medical technologists this morning at 11 o'clock to iron out some of these things and to get some other particulars in terms of timeline," he noted.