For more than two weeks now Public Health Nurses have been calling for Fair Contracts in Belleville
Ontario Nurses Association Provinical President Erin Ariss says public health workers care deeply about the residents they serve, but they refuse to be bullied into accepting real wage cuts.
Ariss says that the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Board of Health is refusing to bargain a fair offer and thereby risking the health and wellness of the very residents they’re mandated to serve.
Striking Public Health Nurses were also joined by CUPE members during the rally on Wednesday, September 6.
According to Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario President Fred Hahn, they may soon be joined by members of CUPE after the board of health refused to negotiate a fair offer.
Hahn said that “Workers will no longer be bullied or intimidated into accepting contracts that don’t respect them, the work they do, or the needs of the people they serve.”
The 50 nurses providing that care have been on the picket line now since mid-August.
Written by Joseph Goden
