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Parksville care home suspends union member for speaking out on seniors’ care

February 7, 2012

The Hospital Employees’ Union is demanding the immediate reinstatement of one of its members who has been suspended without pay for speaking on behalf of the union at a January 19 public meeting in Parksville on the state of seniors’ care. 

Tina Irvine, a licensed practical nurse at Stanford Place in Parksville and an officer of the HEU local executive, was suspended without pay for a week and a half. 

Irvine’s comments to the public meeting focused on how staff shortages and turnover are impacting care at the facility. 

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