Originally Posted by
tonytiger55
The same could be said for unions. The issue is nothing to do with nursing or bargaining, or even shortage of medical professionals. They are paid very very well.
Ive posted on this issue before. There is no shortage of nurses. Ive sat at round tables with elected officials to hear immigrant medical professionals who cannot get into the system. The stories they tell. The system is biased in hiring those born in Canada first even though two people are Canadian and equally qualified. A nurse spent months if not a few years going through the system of immigration, English testing, then finally getting to a nursing program to re-train only to be told her English certificate had expired and she cannot apply for the program. How the hell does english expire? A client of mine was a well established paediatric surgeon who is now a Uber driver. What a waste.
The hiring through an agency is the result and not the cause.
Do you really think these immigrant nurses/doctors will complain about the working conditions or wage? If left to the market it solves the medical professional shortage issue, and drives wages down. Then BOOOM. Overnight your Ugg boot wearing, lulu Lemon legging, hair in a bun, no makeup, white toe nail with rescue dog Canadian born nurses with a new three bedroom house who drive a brand new jeep wrangler with a maxed out line of credit go extinct. Thats not good for the unions. They lose their cash cow.
I don't think the government is innocent in all this either. It creates a mandate for the closet marxists and right wingers within Conservative party to introduce privatisation with healthcare.
But I think the unions have a lot to answer for when it comes to inflating wages, protectionism, creating artificial barriers so this problem does not get solved. Thus making medical professionals run to nuzzle on the ample bosom of victimhood at the Union.
Quote
