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CFNU: Budget 2024 brings healthy wins but falls short on fairness for nurses and patients

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Canada’s nurses are encouraged by the federal government’s commitments in Budget 2024 to invest in healthy communities, including a national school food program, housing initiatives and pushing forward pharmacare implementation. “Health is…
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MNU’s response to the 2024 Manitoba Budget

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

WINNIPEG – Today, the Manitoba government of Premier Wab Kinew delivered its first provincial budget. Premier Kinew and his NDP team focused on healthcare as the No.1 issue of the 2023 election, and, like all our colleagues in healthcare, our…
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OP-ED Unsafe staffing: nurses have solutions

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

This piece is an MNU-CFNU op-ed that was published by the Winnipeg Free Press on January 22, 2024. As we start 2024, hospitals are seeing an increasing number of patients, there continue to be long wait times in emergency departments, our…
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CFNU President pens Nursing Week op-ed

Friday, May 12, 2023

An op-ed by CFNU President Linda Silas for National Nursing Week was published in the National Newswatch last week with the title: It’s Nursing Week – but will nurses have time to celebrate? In it, she discusses the toll that high vacancy…
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Nurses want to be part of the solution: op-ed

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

This op-ed co-written by CFNU President Linda Silas and MNU President Darlene Jackson ran in the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday, January 21, 2023. You don’t have to be ill to know Manitoba’s health-care system is only barely functioning.
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MNU statement on the Manitoba Government’s Throne Speech

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Today, the Manitoba government of Premier Heather Stefanson delivered its second Throne Speech. As a province, our priority should be on delivering comprehensive patient care to all Manitobans. This is something we have not been able to do…
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WFP pays tribute to Vera Chernecki

Monday, October 24, 2022

The Winnipeg Free Press shared a lovely, in-depth tribute to the life of Vera Chernecki, former MNU President, in their Passages section on October 22, 2022. Here is an excerpt: An admired and inspiring leader with a 36-year career in health…
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MNU launches new website

Monday, October 17, 2022

MNU is thrilled to announce that our new website is ready for the use of our members and the public! Our goal with the new site was simple – to create a modern, responsive, easy-to-use resource for our members.
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A system on the brink of catastrophe

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

"We did the best we could with what we had at the time" is an expression nurses with our decades of experience know well. We use those words to describe to new nurses how we responded to crises at our hospitals when we were in their…
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New documentary based on nurse’s journey to Iraq

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The creators of Me, Mahmoud and the Mint Plant recently contacted MNU to invite all our members to view their short documentary. This doc is set in war-torn Mosul, Iraq, in 2017, when Canadian nurse Trish Newport developed an unlikely…
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President Jackson featured in Winnipeg Free Press column

Monday, April 4, 2022

In this extensive piece, Winnipeg Free Press columnist Dan Lett interviewed MNU President Darlene Jackson about the recent surgical backlog announcement by Health Minister Audrey Gordon and the task force appointed to deal with it.
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MNU Statement on the Manitoba Government's Throne Speech

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Today, the Manitoba government of Premier Heather Stefanson delivered its first Throne Speech, which included specific commitments that touched on nursing issues in our province, but ones that continue to fall short.
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MNU Members vote to ratify Tentative Agreement

Thursday, October 14, 2021

The MNU is pleased to announce that a majority of our members have voted to ratify the tentative agreement that had been reached with the Employers last week.
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MEDIA RELEASE: MNU dismayed with Court of Appeal decision on Bill 28

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

The Manitoba Nurses Union is dismayed at the news today that the Court of Appeal has overturned last year’s ruling by the Court of Queen’s Bench that found Bill 28, the Pallister government’s public sector wage freeze bill, was unconstitutional.
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MNU’s Tentative Agreement and Ratification Vote

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The MNU is pleased to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached with the Employers following seven weeks of mediation.
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