On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Rosalee Longmoore talks about her 15 years as the president of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN).
The work of nurses is an absolutely essential yet often underappreciated backbone to the healthcare system — one that is a crucial site of struggle that not only continues to shape the scope and wellbeing of practitioners of this important female-dominated profession, but that contributes to the health of all of us through its role in shaping the health system. Longmoore has been a registered nurse since 1976. She first got involved in SUN at the provincial level in 1984, and was president from 1998 until earlier this year. She talks about the changes in the health system and in the work of nursing over her years of involvement, the challenges of working with a union comprised of caregiving professionals, a critical strike she lead that defied back-to-work legislation and court orders in 1999, and the challenges facing the labour movement today.
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