Details on the agreement are sparse, though the union says it focuses on recruitment and retention. The offer will be presented to the union's more than 5,800 members in the coming week.
Men account for approximately nine per cent of nurses in Canada, according to 2021 figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. But that's beginning to shift.
The N.L. government has awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to Marco Group, a Liberal-friendly construction firm, to improve and expand the St. John's Health Sciences Centre emergency department.