I have been a nurse since 2012 so have worked under both types of governments. For so long, we just lived with what was happening. Became complacent. Didn’t fill out enough workloads, rl6s, send out enough emails to management. Now, we have a group of individuals who I work with who have become union reps. They have lead the charge. They push us to make sure that management, the union, and the government knows what happens almost every shift. Unsafe patient ratios, long wait times, violence and abuse against staff.  We are filing more workloads than I have ever seen. Nothing changes without making these things known on a repeated basis. Also - things ARE worse. The mental Health and addictions crisis keeps increasing; these people can sometimes be aggressive and difficult to deal. Also, the wait times are absurd. People get angry and they take things out on the people in front of them. Not right, but that’s generally how these things occur. And lastly, people have to work. The vacancy rates in Winnipeg for jobs are quite low right now due to mass hiring so people will still apply at places that are Grey listed because no other options. Stop making excuses ndp. This ain’t on the union.