Health Care Workers Looking Over New Deal

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It also restores contracting out protections for first time in more than 16 years.

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Full details of the agreement which include compensation increases in line with the government’s negotiating mandate for public sector employers, will be provided to union members in advance of ratification votes which are yet to be scheduled.

The tentative agreement was reached after nine-weeks of talks which began in early September.

Workers covered by the agreement work in hundreds of job classifications in hospitals and health clinics, long-term care homes, corporate offices and supply warehouses.

They work in direct patient and resident care as well as in support services, technical, clerical and trades and maintenance areas.

In addition to HEU, the Facilities Bargaining Association includes workers in nine other unions, including the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union and the International Union of Operating Engineers.