The report shows the number of unfilled health-care jobs in Canada reached an all-time high in 2022 and that staff are missing an extra week on average due to illness.

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    People are voting with their feet and not enough replacements are being generated.

    With the average boomer turning 65 recently, retirement is more compelling than being a nurse, I’m sure. Of course, with the average boomer turning 65, their healthcare needs, statistically, starts to rise. That also means more jobs to fill.

    Nothing good working conditions and strong pay can’t fix… Am I right?

    No.

    1. The boomers aren’t coming back from retirement in any meaningful numbers. No amount of improvement in working conditions or money is worth more than being retired. With them gone, there are not enough people to go around. Period.
    2. Everyone else is in an arm’s race to win the few remaining workers left. Every attempt to improve pay and conditions means every other job will do the same, leaving a stalemate at best.

    The public sector cannot win that race. Healthcare isn’t that valued. In Canada, we are not even willing to pay for it at all unless it is hidden in our tax bill where we don’t notice the cost, and if you ever try to raise that tax bill – look out!

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      Yea, the boomer retirement is really messing things up on every level.

      It doesn’t help when Ford ignored nurse protest last year. Didn’t he get into trouble with the courts with how he treated them at the time? Some sort of legislation he forced through that lowered their work conditions and gave pay cuts across the board turning out to be illegal?

      If that’s not one of the most bald-faced display of disdain for one of the most critical workers in modern society (outside of China that is), I don’t know what is.

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        And thank you for not replying with anything of substance! I know how much education is hated around here and I was growing worried that you might contribute to providing one, upsetting the locals.

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          I don’t engage with bad faith actors and their teevee talking points.

          Employer needs wage slaves, it can compete on wages.

          Shiti emoloyers don’t get wage slaves… This is economics 101.

          Learn to business chief.

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            While your Econ 101 is on point, perhaps you don’t understand what competition means?

            As soon as nursing employers offer a better deal, those who sucked up the nurses in the meantime will match – or even beat – it, giving no reason for those workers to change gears. Nursing will not win as it is not valued like other professions. The companies which are valued have bottomless pits of money to throw at people. The healthcare industry does not.

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              Maybe I am bias from US… But we spend enough money for nurses to have a living wage. They just don’t get the money because rent seekers and money changers leech it all up.

              I am sure you get these guys in Canada too, could start with cutting them out ;)

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                Nurses are predominantly hired by the government. There is probably some bureaucratic fat in there, but probably not as much as you might think. If all the government revenue in this province went directly to the currently employed nurses – leaving nothing for doctors, hospitals, transit, roads, etc. – we could still only double their incomes. There isn’t that much money to go around.

                Which brings us back to:

                and if you ever try to raise that tax bill – look out!

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                  No money, no honey. Why should working person provide medical services to bunch of mostly old clowns at reduced wage?

                  Boomers could do all of us a favour and die tho, would fix many of these issues we are having.

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                    Why should working person provide medical services to bunch of mostly old clowns at reduced wage?

                    Not sure. I said the same thing in the beginning and got called a “bootlicker” for it. You tell me.

                    But if I were a gambling man, perhaps to avoid being called a bootlicker? I couldn’t care less, but that might bother some people.