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Women's Work: Focus on Caring

How Nurses Learned to Wear Two Hats: Professionals and Unionists

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title: Stained Glass Window.

Description: Nurses Association of New Brunswick Building, 165 Regent Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick..

Source: LHTNB Collection.

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.

Title: Rita Dubé.

Description: Rita Dubé, President, New Brunswick Nurses' Union, 1975 - 1980.

Source: New Brunswick Nurses' Union.

Title: Madeleine Gaudet [formerly Steeves].

Description: Steeves served as President of the New Brunswick Nurses Union, 1982-1990.

Source: New Brunswick Nurses' Union.

Title: Red Badge of Frustration.

Description: Nurses donned red arm bands during “The Nurse is Worth It” campaign, 1980-81.

Source: Daily Gleaner, 9 December 1980.