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Manitoba’s nurses are committed to caring.
Tell the Manitoba government to step up for nurses and patients.
Nurses are here for all of us, doing everything possible to keep Manitobans safe. In partnership with all health care workers, they’re on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, working around the clock to stop its spread and care for those who are infected.
But they can’t do it alone. Nurses need your help to convince the Pallister government to support frontline care providers.
Many nurses do not have access to the personal protective equipment (PPE) they need. Without the right equipment, they’re being put into harm’s way.
When nurses get sick, they can’t take care of patients. And the last thing Manitoba needs now is an even greater shortage of nurses.
The situation is getting worse and Premier Pallister has promised more cuts are on the way.
Protecting health care workers protects us all. Other provinces are making progress by allowing nurses to use their clinical judgment for accessing PPE, and providing paid sick leave for ALL health care workers exposed to COVID-19.
Yet Manitoba is lagging behind. It’s time for the Pallister government to do better, and work with nurses to put patients first.
What can you do to help?
- Stay home, save lives.
- Wash your hands frequently.
- Keep at least 2 metres away from others.
- Tell Premier Pallister that protecting nurses and health care workers protects us all by joining our letter writing campaigns:
Stand with nurses and
stand up for safe patient care.
Send a letter demanding the federal government improve care for Canadian seniors at act.newmode.net/action/cfnu/act-now-better-care.
Canada's nurses are asking for the following:
- Bring long-term care in Canada into the public health care system and regulate it according to the fundamental principles of the Canada Health Act;
- Eliminate for-profit business from the long-term care sector;
- Match wages and benefits for long-term care workers to the value of the work they perform; and
- Require appropriate staffing and health & safety protections for workers and residents.
Open letter to PM Trudeau from Canada's Nurses: Urgent Call for Action to Protect Canada’s Seniors
For years, unions representing health care workers and seniors’ advocacy groups have amplified the voices of frontline workers expressing many of the same concerns. For too long, those voices have g...Unions are still a must so the dedicated worker changing diapers and feeding etc are paid a fair wage too. If you want care to come up to the standard seniors deserve..educated staff nurses etc are usually well looked after..we need people who actually care about the elderly to work in these homes..that means paying them well so they want to stay..and not everyone has the ability to educate but are still needed for the grunt work..
Union makes to sound like everyone should make the same salary regardless of your education and duties at work. Time for the greedy rich unions to go.
“Nurses believe the Pallister government’s health care austerity and rushed consolidation in the WRHA are major casual factors, and not simply correlated,” said MNU President Darlene Jackson.
“Nurses have also been without a current collective agreement for three years, and a pay raise in almost four. The data shows this is clearly not an effective strategy for improving nursing recruitment and retention.”
winnipegsun.com/news/news-news/registered-nurse-population-in-manitoba-drops-report
Registered nurse population in Manitoba drops: report
The supply of registered nurses dropped in 2019, according to new numbers in the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s 2019 report released on Thursday.The report shows a 1.3% decline i…I believe you meant causal, not casual. You’re forgiven, as nurses...my aunts and mother were nurses... she taught nurses in the old hospital schools, and all the student nurses were like big sisters to me,as a child. Most noble profession and calling, my deepest respect in these trying times...and even earlier under Pallister’s hegemony under the guise of austerity. We shall overcome...someday.
Now I hope the public would know what this Pallister Government really is. To the public, if you or your love ones have been cared for or currently receiving care from a Nurse, please help us (Nurses) get our fair contract by telling Pallister and his PC MLA’s to wake up and sitdown on the bargaining table with MNU. Your nurses are on the real frontline of this fight against Covid 19 pandemic and are risking their lives and the health of their own families and they are working without the fair wage. If this will drag furthermore, don’t be surprised that there will be lesser nurses who would want to stay and work here in Manitoba.
Nurses and other healthcare workers have received little respect from their employer, the Manitoba PC party, who have devalued their work and frozen their pay. The public should be outraged and not surprised that nurses are leaving Manitoba for better opportunities.
I have decided to retire from nursing because I wasn’t happy with the changes that happened and the lack of respect from the government towards all healthcare workers.
Count me in as a statistic. I left at the end of 2017 to avoid all the Drama that was being announced. I was an ICU nurse. Happy I left.
After=all they have done to keep people safe and well cared for, SHAME ON YOU PALLISTER FOR ONCE AGAIN NOT DOING THE RIGHT THING! YOU STAND OUT AS THE ONLY PREMIER WHO DID NOT STEP UP AND TAKE CARE OF US AND THE ONLY PREMIER WHO SPOKE WITH DECEPTION WHEN YOU SAID YOU CARED! I am embarrassed by his actions and the depth of his lies!
Unions up to their old tricks again
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- Manitoba’s Nurses Support Legislation to Improve Long-Term Care May 27, 2020
- Nursing Week 2020: Nurses Must Advocate for Our Patients and Each Other May 11, 2020
- Emergency Order Suspends Nurses' Rights May 1, 2020
- Statement on Economic Reopening April 29, 2020
- *Updated May 1* MNU Responds: PCH staff to be limited to single site April 29, 2020
- Day of Mourning April 28, 2020
“Although NPs saw marginal growth, the net loss of all CRNM practising registrants was 144, and represents the lowest number of registrants since 2010. This follows another drop of 344 CRNM registrants from 2017 (13,866) to 2018 (13,522).” https://winnipegsun.com/news/news-news/registered-nurse-population-in-manitoba-drops-report/
Our open letter to PM @JustinTrudeau: "For years, unions representing health care workers [...] have amplified the voices of frontline workers expressing many of the same concerns. For too long, those voices have gone unheard." #LongTermCare
https://nursesunions.ca/open-letter-to-pm-trudeau-from-canadas-nurses-urgent-call-for-action-to-protect-canadas-seniors/
