Beginning in the 1960s, New Brunswick nurses awoke to the fact that little value was placed on their work. By the mid-1960s they began to explore collective action within their professional association, the New Brunswick Association of Registered Nurses. With the passage of a new labour relations act in the late-1960s nurses gained collective bargaining rights, including the right to strike. This article examines three key moments of labour conflict – 1969, 1975, and 1980-81 – that help to explain the nurses’ turn towards unionization. Résumé À partir des années 1960, les infirmières du Nouveau-Brunswick ont pris conscience du fait que l’on attachait peu de valeur à leur travail. Au milieu des anné...