WORRIED
BUT WORKING!
Our Common Cause – Healthy workplaces for health care workers
What are you worried about?
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What Workers Are Saying
Why are we working so hard for a system that doesn’t care about us?
- Child & Family
Services
We have management making decisions who have no experience of working in this ICU and are making it unsafe for RNs and patients.
- Stanton Territorial Hospital
We’re not there for appreciation, but nobody is helping us hold it together.
- Child & Family
Services
Management made a decision that due to a staffing shortage in ICU, that the ICU would decrease the number of patients they would be able to admit.
...
This means that the patients needing emergency care are waiting longer because the ER beds are being used by ICU patients.
- Stanton Territorial Hospital
The problems boil down to being severely understaffed, workers burning out quickly
and extremely, and unsafe working conditions with no resources to make
it safer.
- Child & Family
Services
We love our community. We love the families and the kids.
- Child & Family
Services
I voiced concerns that if things didn’t change staff would leave.
The response I got was
“if anyone doesn’t like it they can leave.”
This is why staffing is so bad and why healthcare in the north is at risk.
- Stanton Territorial Hospital
I am sick and in long term due to shortages of staff, work too much overtime, no vacations, no time off for, no training , over 4 years.
- Stanton Territorial Hospital
If you think it is a good idea to have a meeting in your Local to discuss WORRIED BUT WORKING
in your workplace, and there is nothing yet scheduled, contact your Local President!
Documents
and Information
GNWT CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
February 5, 2020 Tabled Document: GNWT Response to Question 10-19(1) Child and Family Services
STANTON TERRITORIAL HOSPITAL
February 11, 2020 Technical Briefing: Stanton Territorial Hospital Project
July 12, 2019 Letter from UNW President to Stanton CEO re: working conditions concerns
July 17, 2019 Labour Views column in Yellowknifer - "A cry for help"