{"id":360910,"date":"2018-05-12T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/quebecs-nurses-on-the-move-facebook-page-bans-wsws-reporters-for-criticizing-unions\/"},"modified":"2018-05-12T21:18:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T20:18:46","slug":"quebecs-nurses-on-the-move-facebook-page-bans-wsws-reporters-for-criticizing-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/quebecs-nurses-on-the-move-facebook-page-bans-wsws-reporters-for-criticizing-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec\u2019s \u201cNurses on the Move\u201d Facebook page bans WSWS reporters for criticizing unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Quebec\u2019s \u201cNurses on the Move\u201d Facebook page bans WSWS reporters for criticizing unions<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Louis Girard<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 May 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Two <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em> reporters, banned from the <em>Infirmi\u00e8res en mouvement<\/em> (Nurses on the Move) Facebook page, have sent an open letter to its administrators protesting the anti-democratic action and insisting that \u201cworkers entering into struggle need access to a wide range of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recently-established <em>Infirmi\u00e8res en mouvement<\/em> Facebook page attracted more than 35,000 members after Quebec nurses, in some cases outside official union channels, mounted sit-ins and other protests. It quickly became a forum for nurses and other health care workers to expose, and discuss how they can best fight against, the onerous working conditions and deteriorating patient care that has resulted from years of savage budget cuts imposed by all levels of government.<\/p>\n<p>Several nurses have used this forum to directly criticize the union that represents the vast majority of Quebec nurses, FIQ (or in English, the Interprofessional Federation of Health of Quebec). Like the other unions, both public and private sector, FIQ has suppressed opposition to the austerity policies of successive Liberal and Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (PQ) governments.<\/p>\n<p>A video showing FIQ President Nancy B\u00e9dard talking about a \u201cpositive\u201d emergency meeting with Quebec Health Minister Ga\u00e9tan Barrette provoked many hostile comments on <em>Infirmi\u00e8res en mouvement<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ridiculing B\u00e9dard\u2019s and Barrette\u2019s empty promises to institutionalize patient-nurse ratios, a young nurse from Laval writes: \u201cHa ha ha! That\u2019s great! She might get us a free subscription to the review of the oiiq [the order responsible for regulating the nurses\u2019 profession in Quebec]!\u201d He added: \u201cI\u2019m sure she would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/05\/12\/qnur-m12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Quebec\u2019s \u201cNurses on the Move\u201d Facebook page bans WSWS reporters for criticizing unions By Louis Girard 12 May 2018 Two World Socialist Web Site reporters, banned from the Infirmi\u00e8res en mouvement (Nurses on the Move) Facebook page, have sent an open letter to its administrators protesting the anti-democratic action and insisting that \u201cworkers entering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}