Nurses protest against proposed reduction in positions at Central Health facilities

Mzzzz Kitty

- November 11, 2012 at 00:10:11

Hey, fellow newfs, I live on Vancouver Island in BC. I just finished HEU convention ( Hosp Employees Union). We are all facing the same issues and fighting for same rights. SHAME on all you posters with your pompous attitude. You go into a nursing home and work for a day...then give us your opinion.It's not all about the wages, it's about OUR workload which, in turn, results in BETTER patient care. Don't be so quick to judge us. We had our wages cut 15% in 2004...I am still not making the same wage as back then...so, you call us GREEDY...what a laugh that is!!! Also, I joined a UNION because we protect one another...we fight for BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS...which EVERY person deserves, not matter WHAT they do...that's what UNIONS are all about. So, to all you members of NLNU.....YOU KEEP UP THE FIGHT....you are caregivers , an integral part of society and our UNION strives for that to be known!! SOLIDARITY FOREVER!!!

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Duffy

- November 8, 2012 at 19:03:28

Contract time and here we go again. "We are only interested in Patient Care" yea right BS. All they want is more money and they will get it or strike - forget about patients. Ever go in a hospital and visit and need something and see the nurses all gathered around the nurses station complaining about the schedule or something while patients wait and wait. No - stop by Carbonear Hospital anytine and see and if you want a real treat visit the Third World wait 6 hours Emergency Room!

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Umm Yeah

- November 8, 2012 at 18:25:32

"than why not give me an option and allow to have private insurance and a separate, "pay" hospital to go to? " I think you mean then, not than. You do have that option. Head to the airport, fly to a private hospital and pay out of pocket. You can even get insurance down there.

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KD

- November 8, 2012 at 16:29:35

Who are the nurses trying to fool with patient care I hope its not nl ers we have been there with these people when the bottom line is jobs and money

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dan

- November 8, 2012 at 15:09:37

Get ready, there are hugs cuts coming in all Govt Services, thank you Mrs. Blunderdale for your budget forecasting ignorance! ABC in NL next election!

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Tim Jamison

- November 8, 2012 at 13:41:56

The gigantic money pit of forced socialist healthcare. If sociazlist healthcare is so good, than why not give me an option and allow to have private insurance and a separate, "pay" hospital to go to? Shouldn't the socialist healthcare sell itself and put the new hospital out of business?

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  Political Watcher

  - November 8, 2012 at 16:13:37

  Hey Tim, take it easy. I am betting you are a Bill O'Rielly fan aren't you?

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  Vlad

  - November 8, 2012 at 16:15:30

  Tim, you're absolutely right. In fact, I would go one step further and say that we should have privatized highway systems and road systems so that people like yourself can opt out of paying taxes for roads and highways, and use their own private roads and highways. Shouldn't the socialist roads, if they are so much better, put the private roads out of business? Give me a break. Your teabagger attitude is as uninformed as it is hateful. Taxes aren't a burden. They are a responsibility that you have to the society in which you live, to the society from which you have benefitted your entire life. If you don't want to pay taxes, you are not being noble or standing up against the evils of socialism - you are dodging your responsibility to the society in which you live. You frame socialism as if it is a leech on the John Galts of this world, when it is the John Galts of this world who are the genuine leeches, with all their tax avoidance schemes and refusal to give back to a society which made them rich.

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  Tim Jamison

  - November 8, 2012 at 20:56:01

  Rather than play word games with me, why not just give me the option and, if you're right and mandatory socialist hospital systems are superior (they are INFERIOR and it should not be so, seeing as we all pay 11 grand a year each in taxes for them; about triple or quadruple what the average American pays), my private insurance and private hospital would go bankrupt and fizzle out on their own? Wouldn't they? Why are you scared of choice?

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  Vlad

  - November 9, 2012 at 18:13:36

  I don't think you understand either the Canadian or the American healthcare systems. America spends approximately double per capita on health care than countries like Canada, Australia, or Norway spend, and their health care is much worse, covers fewer people, and is filled with rampant inequality characterized by some people going to five-star hospitals while others go to Dr. Nick. Your ideology is dying, Tim, and rightfully so. Your morals originate from an antequated mode of production in which hard work equaled success. This is no longer true. For some, hard work makes you billions, while for others, hard work earns you a trip to the chiropractor. You, Tim, want to make the oppressed wage-slaves pay even for that trip to the chiropractor.

Mary Collins

- November 8, 2012 at 13:41:05

Nurses ROCK!

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Political Watcher

- November 8, 2012 at 13:40:56

Nurses protsting? This is not news; this is an expectation.

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