The following is posted to support our striking nurses who have been treated unfairly by their employer (government) for too many years. Thanks to Tee White for the poster.
Support Our Nurses
The following is posted to support our striking nurses who have been treated unfairly by their employer (government) for too many years. Thanks to Tee White for the poster.
153 responses to “Support Our Nurses”
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@Contract.
Our Supreme Leader must resolved de nurses issue before January 19, 2022.
Cutoff one of de opposition FUEL Supply Lines..
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@ Tron
Please step to de podium…
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David BU
At this stage, PM Mottley is incapable of …..NURSING ….this situation back to a healthy ….condition !
She is a despot !
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@Dirt Farmer January 13, 2022 7:50 PM
You been digging in the dirt so long that you fully covered your head in dirt and have no idea what is really going on with the nurses and the level of politics at play.
The politics game being played on nurses didn’t start in December, it been going on for donkey years.
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@ Richard
Didn’t realized your CNA is incapable of receiving such pertinence. I strongly recommend seeing an RN!!!
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Oh, Richard
Frankly speaking I don’t want to know when it started. I say “End It Now” and harvest de fruit.
I gone🇧🇧
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they should all leave and come North. My god daughter who works for the Scarborough Health Network as an RN earned $158+k in 2020. I am waiting for the sunshine list to see what her salary was last year. Her parents are Bajan.
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@Dame+Bajans January 13, 2022 9:58 PM “they should all leave and come North. My god daughter who works for the Scarborough Health Network as an RN earned $158+k in 2020.”
Recently on another thread you mentioned an elderly diabetic aunt who was treated at the QEH for several weeks. If “they should all leave and come North” who will nurse your other aunts, uncles, cousins, etc? who will nurse the aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. of the BU family? Who will nurse my children and grandchildren? Who will nurse me?
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Ontariosunshinelist.com
Scarborough and Rouge Hospital
564 registered nurses on the sunshine list, average salary $110,695 CDN
Average raise 3.86%
73.6% got that raise or greater -
We should not detract from the issue at hand. Our nurses have legitimate grievances which have been ignored by successive government. We must not trivialize the concerns of our nurses.
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If the nurses want to come north
Something that started the strike ……… -
The insurrection instigated by the outspoken Senator is illegal and criminal. Those who live in a developing country must be happy if they get the equivalent of 100 USD per week. Enough is enough, time to weaken employee rights!
Our nurses should emigrate, indeed. If they could. At least the half of them is UNVACCINATED and would not even make it to the airport in Canada. When I hear everyone here talking about Barbadian privileges – high salary, 20 hours work per week, but no vaccination in the profession – I can only laugh at so much delusion.
Those who are mentally left behind on the plantation of the 1840s should not be surprised that we are a backward developing country with low wages and zero growth!
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Got de drift…
I ate that one.
Mandate. All attending nurses must be vaccinated…No exceptions. Put your Patients first…
I gone again..
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Stop believing the pharmaceutical marketing material and their corrupted regulatory agencies. These COVID jabs are injected prophylactic drugs, not vaccines.
1) A vaccine prevents 99%+ of the recipients from getting infected and or transmitting the disease it is supposed to protect against.
2) Surviving a natural infection always gives better and more complete protection than a vaccine.Doctors and nurses know this and see it on the front-line day in, day out.
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@Critical Analyzer January 14, 2022 5:37 AM “prophylactic”
prophylactic=a medicine or course of action used to prevent disease
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for disease prevention
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@Dame Bajans
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s son-in-law appears to have ended his career with the Toronto Police Service by rendering himself unfit for duty through his refusal to get vaccinated. He is on leave WITHOUT pay until such time as he is vaccinated.
Ernie Haynes is Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s son-in-law. Married to Dougie’s daughter Krista, Ernie just packed his things after refusing the vaccine, kissing off 120k a year job as a staff sergeant at the Toronto Police Service. 86% of people in Ontario have been vaccinated.
If as it appears this strike started over the nurses’ anxiety/refusal to get vaccinated when the government wanted to institute safe spaces, if the nurses move to Ontario they will find that even if they are part of the Premier’s family that won’t protect their jobs. They will lose their jobs if they refuse to be vaccinated. Being an unemployed/unemployable immigrant in the great white north especially in the winter int no picnic. Tobesides they can’t move to Canada to work as a nurse unless they have been vaccinated. As long as the nurses understand this.
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Mia was warned immediately after the 2018 election, That’s what not listening gets you, just because it did not come from some crooked ass racist minority…
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RA will NEVER GIVE POWER to a baldhead/Slave..
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How come we (BLPDLP)can find money to pay consultants $20, 000 per month but can’t pay nurses.
Why are we asking nurses to put country first and stay put while others feed at the trough?
We wanted more judges and we found the money to pay them
We wanted more overseas offices and we found the money for them
We wanted more diplomats and we found the money for them
What really is so hard to find money to pay nurses
We just found money to settle with some police . It’s a secret but we found it
We are more concerned with breaking Caswell’’s back than treating nurses as they deserve.
If Mottley and company wanted this impasse over, they would have found a way.
Perhaps they are just waiting until after elections to show who is boss.
Yep, it happens everywhere. Why bother????
BTW, what the hell thus have to do with nurses in Canada or Russia.
Gimme a frigging break . -
WS
Did some including say that the problem is administrative?
What the hell you going off so early in the morning about finding money
——Some one suggested the nurses should move north that the hell how Canada came up
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Including. caswell
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@ Cuhdear Bajan
You would note that I did not address my post to anyone in particular.
My view remains that the nurses are being treated like shit ; and they have been treated like shit for decades. Quite frankly, I am more preoccupied with our nurses at this time. Hopefully their problems will be solved by their governments and unions., in their interest.
And I hope that those of us who fail to admit that what is going on now is a wicked, insensitive political BS , power playing , and an unnecessary assault on our nurses will also hope that the damn impasse is soon settled , so that the nurses will be treated as they deserve.
BTW, whenever I want to address a post to anybody on this blog, I do so directly. And whenever a post is directed to me,I politely respond.
And, may I politely add: this shit goes on all over the world. Why then should we really worry.
Peace. -
William, what are the grievances?
Here is a snip from a BarbadosAdvocate article. The salaries in the public sector are categorized based on grades? If you touch one you touch all? A lowly blogmaster trying to understand the issues.
“Amongst the list of grievances outlined is the need for increased pay, as well as remuneration for degrees. Also, the need for better working conditions, health insurance, improved nurse-to-patient ratios and continuous training.”
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@ Cuhdear Bajan
Those comments/post should have been directed to @ John2. My apologies. -
To keep the body in good health is a duty…
Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
The journey unfolds! We continue to add vocabulary and play with the right and left side of the brain and body. Stay open and know that you are worthy of this experience and this time.CURIOSITY
UPLIFT
MOBILITY
FOCUS
FLIGHTYou are not alone. There are many others putting this powerful puzzle together with you.
Spread your wings.
Tell me, why not?
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@ David
You have apparently listed the grievances. What on earth do you want me to list.? These grievances have been in the public domain for decades.
I would suggest that the “ lowly blogmaster” directs his question elsewhere.
Peace -
So too the police and other government agencies.
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Trying to figure out what some are saying. Keep it simple for me…
If nurses are not being paid… should they turn up at the office? -
@Cudhear Bajan:
I am speaking to those nurses now on strike that Mia Mugabe (Peace be with Peace the Prophet) refuse to pay or to negotiate with. To the other aunts, uncles, etc., they live in St. Joseph and all voted for BLP. They got the government they wanted. If they are suffering, they can blame THEIR government. I have had my third Moderna shot. I got it last Saturday and 24 hours after, I had the chills, slight fever and mild headache. I got no reaction from the first two. If people don’t want to take it, that is their choice. and they can suffer the consequences. An aunt and uncle did not take it and ended up at North Point. Did I feel sorry for them? No, no, no.
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@ Dame+Bajans,
I had Pfizer then Moderna then a Moderna booster shot. The only side effect I felt was soreness at the injection site.
I will not tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t do.
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I am so fed up with this situation that I don’t even know what to say.
If Mia does not care for these nurses who does she care about?
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Donna they care at a personal level BUT politics and power wins.
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David,
Then they do not really care.
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I agree with you Donna. Mia does not care. You and I care about these nurses more than she does. We have shown it.
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If this strike does not end soon, I will continue to $upport these nurses. I spoke to Caswell and asked him to send me a receipt for my taxes. Trudeau’s loss will be the nurses gain.
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@Dame
Not that I care….but I cannot recall the tax treaty between Cda-Bdos covering donations to ‘strike funds’, or similar. -
and meaning not….care about the nurses…rather care about what you opt to deduct
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@ David
My limited common sense tells me that if you “ personally” care about an issue. You would use your political power to bring it to an end. But, once more we are giving cover to our political masters.
The BS is appalling.
I guess the other side can say that Freundel “ personally cared but his power and political instincts told him to demonstrate otherwise.
Ah mean what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
I foolishly thought that one enters politics to use personal feelings and ideas for the better.
Another export possibility: insulting people’s intelligence.
Butter why worry, it happens all over the world. -
A school mate, who was a psychiatric nurse at the Psychiatric Hospital, told me he had to work months without being paid. But, he received financial assistance from his wife and mother.
Similarly to other nurses we knew who went to the UK, he decided to apply to Bermuda, was successful and has been working there for over 12 years.Non-payment of salaries on a timely or regular basis has not only been problem for nurses, but Prison Officers and temporary officers in ‘central government’ as well. It is a situation that has been occurring for several years…. over the tenures of successive BLP and DLP administrations.
I’ve heard excuses ranging from the affected employees’ names not being listed on SmartStream……. to the Executive or Personnel Officers not sending the ‘authorities’ from Personnel Administration to the accounting sections of the respective government departments, to facilitate the preparation of expenditure vouchers and associated cheques for payment.
A few years ago, I worked temporarily in a Ministry and experienced problems with having to wait two or three months before being paid. I had to call the accounts section repeatedly to find out the status of my salary…… and, was either told they did not receive the ‘authority’ from the then Services Commission authorizing payment; the payable order was prepared and awaiting the accountant’s signature; or it went to the Treasury and has not returned.
I told a clerical officer that she doesn’t have anything to worry about because her salary is lodged in her bank account in time for payday and she could pay her bills. I, on the other hand, couldn’t pay mine.Her response was, when she first joined the civil service, she ‘had to wait long for her money too.’
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@ Dame+BajansJanuary 14, 2022 12:57 PM
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I am speaking to those nurses now on strike that Mia Mugabe (Peace be with Peace the Prophet) refuse to pay or to negotiate with. To the other aunts, uncles, etc., they live in St. Joseph and all voted for BLP.
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Thank you, “Dame+Bajans”, for keeping alight the torch of the nurses’ plight and also alive the memory of PUDRYR aka Piece de Prophet.
His prescient contributions are sorely missed.
Our sagacious Piece was the one who warned us constantly about the budding despotic tendencies of Tron’s Supreme being now in full incarnation.
How can a leader who claims to Care so much about the disadvantaged treat to the nurse’s grievances with such vindictive disdain?
Aren’t the nurses also the country’s unsung heroes; pandemic or no pandemic?
Who will be expected to Care for the thousands of unhealthy Bajans in the coming epidemic of NCD’s in Barbados?
Why are nurses in Barbados seen in such low esteem as to have been categorized in a lower remuneration scale in the public service compared to the ‘regular’ environmental protection officers aka old health inspectors?
Has this embarrassing disparity been rectified? Or is institutional petty politics still deeply entrenched on the chess board of arrant stupidity with MAM the ‘grand’ master?
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@William Skinner January 14, 2022 10:23 AM “@ Cuhdear Bajan. You would note that I did not address my post to anyone in particular.”
I am cool.
When you wrote your post this morning I was happily working in my garden, planted some sweet potatoes, then I cooked a nice hot meal for me and the grands. Not a political though crossed my mind all day. I vote at each election and I will vote this time as I have done for 50 years, but please not I have never sought nor received political favours, for me my parents, my siblings, my children nor my grandchildren [no great grands yet, lol!]
Unlike most of the people on this blog I have never committed to any political party, nor will I commit to any party now.
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Skinner no one i believe does not want to see the nurses paid on time with better working conditions.However the attitude ans bombastic behaviour of Mr Franklyn does nothing to bring an amicable end to this saga.In my opinion a strke should be the last resort..To call out nurses in the middle of a pandemic is to my mind irresponsible as it has further destabalise the vacination programme along with some of the polyclinics operations.The question to be answered is who will pay these nurses on strike Mr Franklyn? I doubt it as i recently heard Mr Franklyn state some of them has returned to work..The other question is why the other unions distanced themselves from Mr Franklyn? Why?
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@William Skinner January 14, 2022 10:38 AM “@ Cuhdear Bajan Those comments/post should have been directed to @ John2. My apologies.”
No need for an apology William I’ve only just seen your comments and I am not at all offended by them.
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Dame Bajan and Hants
I had a third dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine a few weeks ago. For the first dose I felt fine for the first 18 hours or so, then felt as though I was catching the flu for about the 2nd 18 hours. For the second and third doses. Nothing.
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@ Lorenzo January 14, 2022 8:26 PM ” it has further destabalise the vacination programme along with some of the polyclinics operations”
Actually the strike has not destabalized the vaccine program. Ordinary Bajans are refusing to be vaccinated. Some days only 60 something people show up for first doses and this is with 13 vaccine clinics open.
Lotta, lotta Bajans prefer to listen to nonsense propagated via Facebook, U-Tube and other anti-social media.
There is a special place in HELL reserved for Facebook, U-Tube and other anti-social media
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Wunna need to understand that even some of our doctors have not taken the covid vaccine, and this after the Bajan taxpayers have spent upwards of $500,00 paying for their 19+ years of formal education.
Ungrateful wretches.
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@NO,
The union is a non profit. I can claim it on my taxes. It does not matter where it went. If Harper changed that too, they will inform me and I will claim something else the following year. Ask no questions. -
All Bajans even though who live abroad ought to know that the problem of late payments in the civil service has existed ad infinitum. It existed when Caswell worre short pants and Mia wore shoes-n-socks and ribbons.
I have a sibling who was a civil servant. Joined the service in 1975, is now happily retired. In 1975 it was 6 months before sibling got paid.
In 1975 both Caswell and Mia were little more than children.
In 1975 I had not yet seen a star pitch.
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@Miller
I really miss Piece of the Rock. All like now he would be having posters all over BU. I was sorry when Go Fund Me shut down his fund raising for a third party and sent back my contribution. I was disappointed to say the least. I also miss ROK and his good sense as well as Yardbroom for his excellent writing.
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