Nurse Jazzmin Bak was walking home from dropping off her three children at school and daycare last fall when she first heard that the new collective agreement her union reached with the province would force her to double the amount of hours she worked.
“I was devastated, I was pretty much in tears,” Bak told CBC in an interview last week.
Bak has worked in the ICU at the Montreal General Hospital for 12 years. When her third child was born two years ago, Bak reduced her hours to two days a week so she could spend more time at home.
“I’ve
