Nurses picket outside NRGH calling for improved nurse retention and workplace safety

Health-care workers took to the picket line on Monday outside Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, as the B.C. Nurses’ Union have expanded protests to different hospitals across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.
The B.C. Nurses’ Union began a strike on July 2, with 98.2 per cent of more than 50,000 nurses voting in favour of job action. The main call from the union is for the provincial government to bring “a meaningful general wage increase and solutions that improve nurs