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Biiiig scoop on privatization of public nursing staff through pointless middlemen, staffing agencies. 1/

SCOOP: Covenant Care is paying almost $110 an hour for registered nurses through private staffing agencies, more than double the wages of its most experienced unionized nurses. But Covenant says it doesn't know how much the agency nurses actually make. www.theprogressreport.ca/covenant_age...

theprogressreport.caDocuments show Alberta’s Catholic healthcare body paying private staffing agencies nearly $110 an hour per nurse

Euan Thomson

@drugdatadecoded.ca

6 Jan 2025

Earlier scoop by @readtheorchard.org 2/ www.theprogressreport.ca/one_out_of_f...

Euan Thomson

@drugdatadecoded.ca

6 Jan 2025

Earlier piece raising questions about private nursing agencies by @duncankinney.bsky.social. All three pieces published in Progress Report and I'm not seeing any legacy media follow-up yet. 3/ www.theprogressreport.ca/for_profit_n...

theprogressreport.caHow much are for-profit nursing agencies hollowing out public healthcare in Alberta? We don't know

Euan Thomson

@drugdatadecoded.ca

Adding to this thread, most recent agency nursing report by @readtheorchard.org for @theprogressreport.ca .... www.theprogressreport.ca/ahs-nursing-...

theprogressreport.caAHS won’t publicly disclose the latest private nursing contracts, but here’s what we know about the biggest players in the industry

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Euan Thomson

@drugdatadecoded.ca

25 Jan 2025

Appel's Alberta reporting is now particularly important given this new precedent in Toronto over agency nursing outsourcing by Unity Health: bsky.app/profile/pica...

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social

Toronto hospitals have been outsourcing more and more #nursing jobs to agencies. A new ruling against Unity Health could change that, by Kenyon Wallace www.thestar.com/business/tor... via @torontostar.bsky.social

thestar.comToronto hospitals have been outsourcing more and more nursing jobs to agencies. A new ruling against Unity Health could change thatThe operator of St. Michael’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Health Centre and Providence Healthcare argued it was allowed to contract out nursing jobs, but the arbitrator disagreed.