Fund policies to support the nurses who deliver patient care under increasingly unsafe circumstances. Improve staffing and reduce workloads for nurses and allied health workers. And postpone corporate tax cuts in order to fund health care and important public services.

These and other priorities are in response to government funding policies that are forcing hospitals to cut nursing jobs to balance their budgets, according to the nurses’ pre-budget submission released last Tuesday, February 2, to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.