The Nova Scotia government has just announced that they have scrapped Bill 68, the bill with which they were attempting to deny health care workers the right to strike and the right to arbitration. The nurses and other health care workers had threatened a mass resignation to get around the new law. They set a goal of 75% participation, and earlier today, they achieved that, with nurses and others signing resignation letters which would have been effective two weeks hence. The threat worked!! The idea developed from a statement made in the media by one very fed-up nurse who said, "Okay, fine. I'll just quit. I can go anywhere and have a job the minute I walk through the door." The province was scramblng over the last couple of days trying to arrange transfers to hospitals in other provinces and some eastern seaboard states. When it became obvious that no one else had the room or the desire to take these patients, they had to cave in. Hooray!
Maybe some of ther rest of us could take a page out of their book and plan our own resignation campaign...