If it was not for the union there would be no nurses over here in the UK....before a hospital would employ a nurse on contract they would rather have agency nurses that know damn all about the patient and are paid three times as much.
Now let me think, I am in hospital getting half my guts cut out, who do I need a Garbage collector on six figures or a nurse on four figures to look after me and change the dressing? Yes Snark that was the comparison. You don’t need four years of training to stand on the back of a dust cart. You don’t have to live on next to no money while you are being trained as a garbage collector. I would also like to point out that there is no shortage of nurses in the UK it is just that the hospitals will not employ them. For every three nurses employed there is one made redundant.
No different from the UK and I am with you all the way denu.
Be well IAN 2411