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A downtown Vancouver hospital's emergency room suffered major water damage during renovations carried out by a private contractor.
The Hospital Employees' Union says the accident (a pressurized water pipe was severed) could have been avoided if the hospital managers had used inside tradespeople to do the work. The hospital's in-house trades and maintenance workers have safely carried out renovation projects on a cost-effective basis since 1988.
Prior to the flood, Providence Health Care, the Catholic hospital group that operates St. Paul's, gave notice to HEU that it intended to eliminate the in-house trades and maintenance pool of workers altogether.
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