Health workers feel 'sold out' by their union leaders Cindy E. Harnett, Doug Ward and Frances Bula, Victoria Times Colonist; Vancouver Sun
"We went out and fought a long battle for eight days, sleep-deprived. Just so that we get news at 11 o'clock last night that we are shutting down the picket line.'
Walker said she did not know if a richer deal could have been won through prolonged public sector walkouts.
'We don't know if we could have got a better deal. But we wanted to vote on it.'
Trudie George, a birthing suite aide at Surrey Memorial Hospital, carried a sign saying: 'Black Monday for B.C. unions.'
'Bottom line: they sold us out,' George said. 'We want the resignations from all the provincial executive who voted to accept that crap.'