 we'd be recruiting," Drew said.
Operating rooms at Stanton Territorial Hospital are staffed with fewer than half of the nurses that are required, according to a news release issued by the union.
Drew said the new health ministry's initiatives don't go far enough.
Hospital management and staff are working hard, but Gayla Thunstrom, president of the Union of Northern Workers, noted that a lack of "meaningful engagement" from senior territorial government officials is compounding the problem.
"We have an employer who claims it listens to its workers, but it continues to blindside our members and the union with media announcements and policies, without consultation or even advance notification," Thunstrom said in the union's statement.
Drew said she was unable to speak to these comments, and Thunstrom was unavailable for an interview with CBC News prior to publication.
The union recognized the national shortage of health-care workers, saying it has been "warning" the territorial government about an impending health-care crisis for years.
Part-time positions to bring flexibility, Drew says
Drew suggested more part-time positions would fill operating room shifts and give nurses a better work-life balance.
"Let's get creative and bring some flexibility to working hours," she said.
"People value their time off and if that was the only thing we got out of this... you would find more nurses coming to the North and more nurses staying at Stanton [Territorial Hospital]."
Drew also called on compensation for the nurses who are working despite severe staffing shortages and the scarcity of resources.
The union said it would continue to press the health department.
The N.W.T. department of finance handles relations between the union and the territorial government.
The department of health directed CBC News to the department of finance for comment, but it did not respond prior to publication.
The N.W.T. Health and Social Services Authority announced earlier this month that services at Stanton Territorial Hospital's operating room, first introduced in July, would extend through to Jan. 3, 2023.
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- Similar to male.&gt;So, he's willing to put 800,000 people out of work and cost them wages, continue to destroy the reputation of the US government, and in 2 weeks possibly damage the credit rating of the US costing us tens of billions of dollars just so he can keep his job.

Not just so he can keep his job. He knows if he loses his job, it will be in the primary of his state and it will be to a member of the tea party.   And, honestly I think most independents (people that actually matter to elections) would like him much more if he seemed to compromise and not cater to lunatics.

Except, the independents won't be deciding. He's from a "safe" district. In such districts, its the primaries that unseat incumbents, and the tea party has taken over the republican primaries.Velvet Revolution's rolling billboards rolled out tonight.
Please help the effort to keep rolling, and with more banners, by donating here...
To see what was on the other side of the billboard, click here...
We can report that the truck was pulled over by Capitol Police at least 3 times in the first hour it was rolling. Turns out, they've got no good reason to ticket it however. Freedom of speech wins...for a few hours anyway...
Was to Attend State of the Union Address! Was Already Seated in Gallery When Arrested by Capitol Police!
EXCLUSIVE DETAILS...'T-Shirt' Story Confirmed by AP...Media Fighting over Sheehan for Morning Show Appearances...Protesters Rallying for Sheehan's Release...Police push protesters away from Capitol...Sheehan Finally Released, Says She was 'Roughed Up...PHOTO OF THE 'T-SHIRT' FINALLY...
CNN is now reporting...
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan --- who was invited to attend President Bush's State of the Union speech --- has been arrested, Capitol police say.
Invited by Rep. Lynn Woosley [sic] (D-CA) to attend the State of the Union, reports are that she was arrested inside the Capitol chamber.
MORE... 9:08p ET - CNN's "Breaking News" banner announcing the arrest at their website now removed, shortly after CNN reported arrest on air. No further news available currently at their site on the arrest...
9:14p ET - AP reports on CNN's report. Says, "Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol".
9:30p ET - The BRAD BLOG has confirmed the arrest moments ago with David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org.
According to Swanson, Sheehan was "arrested for wearing the shirt she was wearing all day, which had the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq...She was lifted out of her seat [in the Capitol Chamber gallery] by the Capitol Police and taken away."
Swanson told The BRAD BLOG moment ago that Sheehan is "now under arrest and lockup by Capitol Police." He confirmed that moments ago with Gael Murphy, a co-founder of CodePink, an organization which has been working Sheehan. Murphy spoke by cell with Sheehan after the arrest, and they are currently arranging for an attorney for her.
"This not the Park Police," said Swanson. "We're used to getting arrested by them. This was the Capitol Police....She didn't even want to go to the speech, she said she couldn't stand to listen to Bush, but she went. She didn't even protest, she was just wearing the same shirt she'd be wearing all day, a black shirt with the number of troops killed. It was already 'out of date' and she had to add 3 more to the previous number."
We cannot confirm the "banner" reports, and have been told by several sources the arrest was due to the T-Shirt she was wearing after already being allowed into the Capitol chamber where Bush was to deliver his State of the Union address just moments later...
Cindy Sheehan's son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.
9:50p ET - Reuters confirms arrest. Few details given.
9:55p ET - Photo of the arrest from Reuters...
WASHINGTON (CNN) --- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House chamber after she unfurled an anti-war banner before President Bush's State of the Union address.
10:39p ET - Sheehan still in jail, Morning Shows "fighting over her"...
David Swanson, in D.C. tells The BRAD BLOG that Sheehan is still in jail. Swanson had been previously arrested along with Sheehan at earlier protests.
He tells us, "Attorneys are trying to get her out. Media is fighting over here...Today Show, Good Morning America, they all want her...but she has to get out of jail first."
There are 200 protesters standing outside the Capitol Police HQ between 1st and 2nd on D St NE (between Hart SOB and Union Station). They are chanting and demanding Cindy's release. Tell the DC media to cover the protest!
He also suggests...
Call the White House Comment Line |||PHONE_NUMBER|||,1,1 and express your outrage that the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was arrested for wearing a t-shirt with the number of soldiers killed in Iraq!!!!!
11:49p ET - Village Voice has more on Sheehan's recent arrests, including this evening's.
11:54p ET - CNN's Ed Henry finally corrects their report and confirms it was a T-shirt that was the reason for Sheehan's arrest.
"She entered the gallery wearing a shirt with some sort of anti-war slogan...they were afraid she was going to do something with it in front of the cameras".
What, like wear it? The only opinions allowed in the people's Capitol tonight are George W. Bush's, we guess.
Here's another opinion on the "State of the Union" from outside the capitol tonight.
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