In 2004, Campbell imposed an unprecedented 15% pay cut to health care employees.Early in its first term, without consulting labour unions, his government passed legislation (Bill 29, the "Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act") that unilaterally amended labour agreements and required health authorities to contract out positions when savings could be predicted. This led to the privatization of more than 8,000 healthcare jobs. These changes met resistance from many health care workers and resulted in a strike by some of them. A court order and amendments by the government to parts of the legislation ended the strike. The unions took the issue to the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled in 2007 that the Act violated "good faith" requirements for collective bargaining.