Evening emergency nurses at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital demonstrated their refusal to work by holding a sit inin front of the establishment, Monday evening.
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However, the emergency room of the hospital remains open, assures the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, while many patients are queuing near the ambulances.
It is mainly because of the contingency plan that was put in place for the evening by the managers that the nurses refuse to work.
A hundred nurses from this hospital had also sent an ultimatum to their employer last Friday, complaining among other things about the compulsory overtime (TSO) imposed on them.
“The management party, following our disclosures of TSO which was unacceptable, offered us a contingency plan which puts us in overload and leaves the patients in danger so we refuse, affirms the nurse in the emergency Annie Fournier. We don’t want to have the dead on our conscience.”
The majority of nurses at the hospital are still threatening to quit en masse if no action is taken by their bosses.
The departure of a manager is also required, the head of the emergency unit, with whom they complain of a toxic climate.
“For months we have been trying to divide us in order to reign and tonight I really feel the solidarity,” shares another emergency nurse, Mélanie Young.
A meeting is scheduled for Wednesday between the CIUSSS and the nurses to take stock.