Recommendations for settlement put forward by special mediators Amanda Rogers and Vince Ready have been accepted by the Nurses’ Bargaining Association.
This will put an end to all province-wide job action effective midnight tonight (Friday).
The BC Nurses’ Union said the non-binding recommendations address some major concerns nurses had with the tentative agreement reached on May 22nd, as well as actions for all parties to take to address systemic issues including workplace violence, and the prevalence of nurses performing non-nursing duties.
“This has been the longest nurses’ strike in BC’s history, and it was the collective strength, determination and solidarity of more than 55,000 nurses that brought us to this point.” said BCNU President Adriane Gear.
“Our members changed the conversation by forcing government and health employers to confront the realities of nursing and the challenges facing our public health-care system.”
Job action had been taking place for over three weeks, including rotating picket lines at hospitals in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, as well as a province-wide refusal of non-nursing duties and restrictions on overtime.
In Prince George, the union held a rally at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. in an effort to end workplace intimidation.
The recommendations are now with members for their review over the coming days.
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