Gordon Black is Regional Director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees and he tells CHSJ News several hundred people could be getting their layoff notices because something has to give when healthcare costs are rising at 6 per cent a year but spending is frozen.
Black believes any cutbacks in health will take place at the smaller hospitals around the province. He claims rural New Brunswick is under attack.
Black is not surprised at being one of the few voices in favour of the tax cuts of 2008 being rolled back to the 2006 levels.
