Drop-in sessions to address safety concerns at Health Sciences Centre are more of a public relations opportunity than a genuine effort to protect nurses in their workplace, the union that represents them said Monday.

“It is a direct result of public pressure following grey listing, not a genuine commitment to collaboration,” Manitoba Nurses Union president Darlene Jackson said in a social media post Monday.

Union members who work at HSC voted earlier this month to grey list — formally urge colleagues elsewhere not to accept shifts or job offers — at Manitoba’s largest hospital until their safety demands are met.

Since the nurses’ voted 94 per cent in favour of the measure, there have been four drop-in sessions — the first of which was held in “a noisy, high-traffic food court” — for sta

See Full Page