Tranquility lost : the occupation of Tranquille and battle for community care in BC / Gary Steeves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steeves, Gary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health personnel.

Intellectual disability facilities.

Psychiatric hospitals.

King Edward Sanatorium (Tranquille, B.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities, located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed at the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources planning for the future of the residents and the Ministrys stated intensions to use newly tabled legislation to terminate Tranquille employees without cause and avoid any other collective agreement obligations to employees. Consequently, BCGEU members decided to sit-in and occupy the institution by expelling management, running the institution themselves, and publicly advocating for quality community care for people with intellectual disabilities. They did so for nearly a month. Tranquility Lost chronicles the political and public policy conditions leading up to the occupation, the day-to-day activities of the occupation itself, the challenges faced by the workers, and negotiations leading to an agreement. Steeves account profiles the courage of Tranquille employees and their unprecedented use of collective bargaining as a tool to address conditions faced by government clients as well as government employees themselves."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Foreword by Stephanie Smith

Foreword by Cliff Andstein

Chapter 1: Back in Business

Chapter 2: The Legislative Assault

Chapter 3: A Union Response

Chapter 4: From Dominance to Demise

Chapter 5: Running the Institution

Chapter 6: Legal Threats

Chapter 7: The Fear of Failure

Chapter 8: New Management Operations

Chapter 9: Songs, Poetry and Protest

Chapter 10: Negotiations and De-occupation

Chapter 11: It's About the Residents

Epilogue

Acknowl-edgements

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889713871

0889713871

OCLC:

1293257171