CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Nurses' union president Debbie Forward said her members will not be deterred by warnings from Premier Danny Williams. (CBC)Newfoundland and Labrador's nurses won't back down from a volatile conflict over wages because Premier Danny Williams has suggested a government offer could shrink in a worsening economy, a union official said Wednesday.Williams told reporters Tuesday that low oil...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... was justified because the nurses were paid a premium to do management duties.But union president Debbie Forward said in a release Monday that the premium deals with nursing staff and patient care on a unit, not non-nursing staff.Gerri Whitten, a nurse at the Hugh Toomey Health Care Centre in Botwood, said she was helping a patient who had taken a turn for the worse when she found...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses' Union said Thursday that four members have been disciplined, while sticking to the goals of a union campaign to pressure government and health boards.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... with a newspaper and broadcast ad campaign of its own.After Wiseman's speech, union president Debbie Forward spoke to the convention."I'm sorry I have to disagree with you this morning," she said of Wiseman. "But this government doesn't know what collective bargaining is .… This government is dictating what nurses will get. And we will fight, and we will do whatever it takes to make...
