2023-05-10 17:53:33
Montreal nurses risk deserting the metropolis for the benefit of the suburbs, following the creation of a single employer by the Dubé reform, affirms the president of the FIQ. Julie Bouchard also returned to a tweet from François Legault which targeted her personally.
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With the end of seniority by CISSS and CIUSSS provided for in Bill 15, nurses will now be able to work anywhere in Quebec without falling back to the bottom of the list.
Thus, a CHUM employee in Montreal might be tempted to try her luck on the South Shore, for example, where the cost of living is less expensive.
Such a phenomenon occurred following the creation of vast territories grouped under the CISSS and CIUSSS with the Barrette reform of 2015, explained the president of the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), Julie Bouchard, in a parliamentary committee. .
Nurses have moved from remote areas to larger centers on their territory, she says.
“And that’s where it’s worrying. Because mobility does not add healthcare professionals. On the contrary, we are weakening certain centers to improve others,” commented Ms. Bouchard in an exchange with Liberal MP André Fortin.
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Taken to task by Legault
In addition, the president of the FIQ returned to a tweet from Premier François Legault which targeted her personally just following the tabling of Bill 15.
“We have to talk regarding Julie Bouchard, president of the FIQ, the great union of nurses,” wrote Mr. Legault, relaying a column from The Press titled “Blea for Bleed”.
An inelegant maneuver, in the opinion of the united deputy Vincent Marissal.
Mme Bouchard claims to have received the thing with “detachment”.
“It’s a strategy that was clearly used, but that didn’t affect me at all,” she commented, specifying that she was concentrating on conveying the message of the 80,000 members of the FIQ.
Centralisation
In general, the FIQ denounces the centralization of the network created by the new Santé Québec agency, a recurring criticism from the groups heard in the parliamentary committee.
“What particularly concerns the FIQ is that the centralization of the ”true powers” within the Santé Québec agency will likely cause the health establishments to lose all autonomy to the benefit of this gigantic new state-owned company”, worries the union.
For example, the FIQ fears that it will become impossible to demonstrate flexibility in the organization of work in order to adapt to local realities.
“Indeed, Health Quebec would have, according to Bill 15, the power to dictate to each region and to the subordinate establishments their operation rather than leaving to the various local authorities the real power to decide according to their local realities”, writes the FIQ in its brief.
The place of the private sector in Bill 15 is also of concern to the nurses’ union.
According to the FIQ, the Dubé reform risks increasing the use of private clinics, by putting the two networks on an equal footing.
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