TL;DR
more than double the hourly wages of unionized nurses earning the highest possible hourly wage
These costs do not mean that the staffing agency nurses themselves are making $109 an hour. The private staffing agencies pocket their own share of the fee, which is undisclosed. Covenant told us they do not actually know how much the agency nurses themselves are being paid.
So you can bet the workers that those agencies employ are making peanuts.
Fuck that shit, pay the people actually doing the work
In BC, I hear from nurses that the travel nurses make 1.5-2.0x their hourly wage. Many nurses choose to be travel nurses because it pays better.
We can’t have private healthcare. But we can introduce middlemen to take a cut! It’s the conservative way.
