Bahamas Nurses Union President Amancha Williams
NASSAU — Bahamas Nurses Union President Amancha Williams yesterday suggested nurses will not be showing up for their new shifts next month as she maintained there was no legal grounds to penalise non compliance, The Tribune reported November 2.
The union is calling for government intervention as tensions with the Public Hospitals Authority persist over the proposed shift change, with the authority suggesting the union was not negotiating in good faith in its latest statement.
“They can’t penalise nobody if no nurses show up on December 13,” Mrs Williams said. “It doesn’t matter if we don’t have (a strike certificate) in hand. I don’t have to work, you can’t cut my pay, you didn’t give me that shift, that wasn’t agreed upon. It was unilaterally done (by PHA) and it should not be done that way. “Our argument stays the same,” Mrs Williams said, “labour (officials) should be involved at this point.”
The PHA claims the BNU has yet to formally respond to the proposed roster schedule sent in May, and in a statement issued yesterday, underscored repeated postponements of meetings by the union and a failure to provide written feedback on the issue of contention. http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/nov/02/nurses-threaten-we-wont-turn/
