The Fraser Health authority issued a record 2,370 “Code Whites” across 14 facilities in the 2021-22 fiscal year, more than triple the number of calls from 2014-15.
The nurses, and other broader public sector workers, have been subject for three years to a wage restraint law known as Bill 124, which capped increases at 1% a year.
In another compelling essay submitted to our reader “Write to Win” contest, pharmacist Iris Lau recalls the fear—and rewards–of testing out new career waters.
