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Danny claims credit for averting Newfoundland nurses’ strike
by Scott Gilbreath ~ May 21st, 2009
An all-night negotiation session resulted in a tentative agreement between the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses’ Union and the provincial government. No prizes for guessing who’s patting himself on the back.
Williams says phone call led to tentative deal with nurses
Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier said Wednesday it was his late-evening phone call that broke the deadlock between negotiators for the province and the nurses union that led to a tentative agreement to keep nurses on the job.
Only Danny Williams could spin a potentially disastrous nurses’ strike averted at the last minute by costly wage increases as a personal victory.
The deal was reached only two hours before nurses were scheduled to set up picket lines around hospitals and clinics. Final details of the deal have not been released, but it is known that the government’s “final” offer included a 21.5 percent wage hike over four years, increases in starting and top salary scales, and changes in bonus payment policies wanted by the nurses.
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