Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics says satisfaction of workers at work is increasing
Utrecht, 1 July 1993 After a continuously declining workload, workers are increasingly more satisfied about development, promotion and remuneration opportunities. This is shown by a survey of the Central Bureau of Statistics among employed people about their judgement of working conditions. In the level of satisfaction about the career opportunities for employees an increase is visible of five percent. For the employed people, 78 percent considers that they have adequate opportunities to develop themselves in their field of work. Three years ago, this was only 73 percent. Of the professional population, 29 percent indicates having to work under high pressure regularly. This amounts to more than two million employees. In 1999, this percentage was 33 percent. The highest work pressure is for the sixth year in a row to be found in the restaurants, catering and hotels sector. The satisfaction with remuneration is also showing a rising level. In 1999, some 67 percent indicated that they were satisfied with the remuneration they received for work. In 2002, this percentage had increased to 71 percent. In the satisfaction about promotion chances the CBS reported the same trend. In 2002, 39 percent of the employed population experienced its promotion chances as good, as against 34 percent in 1999.
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46) poll on Medicare in Canada by Ken Hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asks: Subject: Does anyone know of a source for consumer satisfaction polls of the US health care system? According to this article satisfaction with the system is less than in Canada. PARTIAL REPLY: 1) The Medical reform Group of Ontario for the past 20 or so years, has been citing data on this matter drawn from surveys conducted in what we thought was a reasonable manner. (My slides are at work - I cannot cite the source right now - I will do that in next few days). However. Our sources confirm the viewpoint of the GM - although they are much older data now. 2) Of related interest: The press in Canada are often citing physicians as so upset with the system that they are lemming-like entering the USA in a mass immigration. Untrue - largely - except for (a) The very greedy few; (b) The few but very very very high fliers in academics. Related surveys have asked physicians their perceptions of their work satisfaction in the USA vs Canada: Unequivocally better in Canada; and much less HMO type of interference. Marx Engels' comments in Manifesto that the bourgeoisie was reducing all intellectuals to the ranks of workers - is true to large extent in the USA where physician autonomy is severely eroded - to the point where many docs are aware that they are NOT able to do their ethical best for the patient. Physicans in Canada are well aware of this, and by and large - have NOT gone South in part because of this. COMMENT: I suspect that in reality the fatigue of the Canadian people; in dealing with the nonsense of waiting lists etc will sooner or later have an impact. As a qualified conspiracist - I view the long term goal (last 100 years or so) of the USA has been to absorb Canada. But this strategic goal has been in the last 40 years impeded by the Canadian people's recognition that when they have a holiday in Florida they take their wallet and life into their hands if they end up in car accident needing hospital care. It will be necessary to shake the Canadian peoples faith in their health care system first. Recently Ontario sent about 10 preterm babies/mothers in preterm labour to the USA as there were: No beds in the Ontario tertiary care hospitals. I can vouch for how frustrating that is to the physicans looking for beds/the families who naturally do not want to be in Buffalo when their kith kin is in Toronto; to the nurses who are massively over-stretched etc How long this can be allowed to continue while the system creaks? - is an unanswerable question really! But, the NHS of the UK gives some clues that this could take a long long time: That is to say the allegiance to the NHS (by memory the Labour legacy of Nye Bevan to the people fo the UK recognising their privatison during the war etc) - was massive - it was hugely supported by the people; and yet DESPITE a massively under-funded system, by any objective analysis for decades. Until . Labour opened the door for private health care. The rest was KFC history - the manager of the health care US privatisation company that came in said: There is more money in the British healthcare system than there is in Kentucky Fried Chicken. Cheers, Ken Hanly
