Tentative Deal for Nurses
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 @ 12:04 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The Province of BC and the Nurses’ Bargaining Association have reached a tentative contract.
The details of the agreement will not be made available until the ratification vote has been completed, but it meets the Province’s Economic Stability Mandate.
It is a five year package covering nearly 42,000 registered, psychiatric and licensed practical nurses throughout BC.
Ratification votes are expected to take place over the next few weeks.
Comments
Another feather in the cap of the Clark government getting the job they were sent to Victoria done in a timely and efficient manner.
Once ratified there will be a 5 year contract with the nurses and only a couple of years into a 10 year teacher contract.
TD foward looking report out today saying BC will continue to lead country in terms of economic growth.
Then there is Horgan trying to derail the economic freight train.
Christy Clark! 2017!! 4 more years!!!
dream on little fledgling!!
The Saskatchewan big dipper lost his seat in yesterday’s election. Mulcair to face the circular firing squad thîs weekend. Horgan to face the same fate in the near future?
Perhaps the Nurses Union could contract out their negotiators to BCTF. They need all the help they can get.
come out of hibernation all growly??
Best to wait to see the deal before any praise or concern is given
Someone needs to look up the meaning of tentative.
Someone had better learn how to read….I said “Once ratified” and the chances of that are pretty good as the bargaining committee has shaken hands on the deal and the union head nurse was on the news and sounded positive that it will be voted for by the membership.
Meanwhile are James and Horgan still on the Has Been and Never Was 2016 tour around the province?
go play with the cat
Glad to see, hope the deal is generous.
metalman.
The Christy Clark Governments’ approach to labour relations is strategic, give the health care unions everything they want, then turn around and crap on education and the teachers union. United they would stand togeather, divided one is sacrificed and falls.
Nurses in BC receive the second highest pay in Canada, second only to Alberta.
The Clark Government had a six week course in labour relations 101 for the bctf to teach them that contracts are made at a bargaining table not by throwing a three or four day hissy fit on the sidewalk while legislation is passed putting them back to work.
With a little help and some late night sessions a deal was struck in a somewhat normal fashion and the tf got a “C” in the course. Not too bad for something that they had not been able to do in some 4 decades. Hope Iker passed on what he learned to the new guy.
BTW if anyone needs massages as part of their benefit package it is nurses not teachers.
I agree that the government gives too much to the health care unions. Nine years ago I thought that they paid us too much! But our union doesn’t seem to think so and negotiates for more each time. This might sound odd coming from someone who works as a nurse, but it bothers me because it isn’t sustainable and I wonder how long it will be until the ‘bubble bursts’?
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