This is in the US, and I can't figure out why the Department of Labor hasn't cracked down on the medical industry yet. It's really horrific, especially because these are the people we're supposed to be relying on to keep us healthy and safe.
How hard is it to enforce 8 hour days 5 days a week? Every other industry has figured it out.
It's already happened with low-wage fast food jobs. Health care is next. Nurses and doctors will be replaced by poorly-trained third-world counterparts.
Yes that's basically what Quebec (and probably other provinces) is doing.
> Do twice as much work for half as much money
I might get tomatoes thrown at me for this, but anecdotally "third-world" nurses are usually not as good due to having experience on different equipment, drugs and often languages. It's better than having no one to cover the shift, but it can be seriously dangerous due to lack of training on specific protocols.
They get paid the exact same amount of money and are in the same union, so they absolutely don't do "twice as much work for half as much money".
Regarding the pay structure for nurses, over time the unions will be filled with mostly third-world ones, so I predict their bargaining position will be weakened and they will accept worse conditions.
For every story of 'X leaves to do Y', there are a thousand people claiming they'll leave, that never do.
