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03 June 2024  
 

Women's Work: Focus on Caring

How Nurses Learned to Wear Two Hats: Professionals and Unionists

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Title: Glenna Rowsell.

Description: Glenna Rowsell came to New Brunswick from the Canadian Nurses Association in the 1960s to assist the New Brunswick Association of Registered Nurses in setting up Social and Economic Welfare Committees to discuss collective bargaining. From 1969 to 1977 she was the Director of Employment Relations for the New Brunswick Association of Registered Nurses, working with the Provincial Collective Bargaining Council, the labour relations arm of the Association.

Source: New Brunswick Nurses' Union.