Murray Mandryk, The Leader-PostPublished: Friday, February 29, 2008
Just how much influence the nurses have on the Saskatchewan Party government right now was evident in Thursday's joint announcement by Longmoore and Health Minister Don McMorris on a partnership agreement to address "Saskatchewan's shortage of registered nurses." This deal barely stops short of a total capitulation to SUN's negotiation-opening demand that the government adopt the union's proposed Emergency Retention and Recruitment Partnership even before it begins to talk money. (Imagine the outcry from the old Saskatchewan Party opposition were this any other union brokering such a deal with the old NDP government.) Heck, even the government news release Thursday noted the focus is now on the government meeting nurse-hiring targets and adds that the agreement "also acknowledges the need for an enhanced collective bargaining mandate" for these negotiations.
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