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🚨 NURSES ARE ON STRIKE: Here's 3 things you need to know🚨

Nurses have been on the picket line for over a week now (the first BC nursing strike since 1989!)

We've been saying for years that the system is stretched to breaking. Now "saying" it is no longer enough

More and more non-nursing duties keep getting piled onto nurses' plates, and nothing has exposed just how much we've been holding a broken system together like this strike has.

Right now, it takes approximately 10,000 hours of overtime every single day just to maintain *baseline* staffing levels.

Let that sink in.

Here's what you need to know:

1. If nurses are outside, something is seriously wrong inside.

This decision came after months of disrespect from the employer: intimidation, walking away from the bargaining table, and pressuring nurses to keep doing non-nursing duties even during lawful job action.

2. What we're fighting for:

✅ Appropriate ratios (Ie: not 10 patients per nurse!)
✅ Fair pay that actually keeps up with inflation
✅ NO cuts to our benefits

3. We're fighting for YOU.

Every extra patient added to a nurse's workload increases that patient's odds of dying by about 7%.
This is about your and your family's safety.

Nurses would rather be inside saving lives..

But the way it's been done is not sustainable

I hope you join us in solidarity 💙