B.C. nurses end historic strike following mediator recommendations
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The union representing more than 55,000 nurses across British Columbia says the longest nurses’ strike in the province’s history is coming to an end.
The Nurses’ Bargaining Association has accepted recommendations put forward by special mediators Amanda Rogers and Vince Ready, bringing province-wide job action to a close effective at midnight tonight. The recommendations came after several days of intensive mediation aimed at resolving a labour dispute that has affected health-care facilities across the province for more than three weeks.
The strike saw nurses participate in a series of unprecedented job actions, including rotating picket lines at hospitals in the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island. Nurses also refused to perform certain non-nursing duties and placed restrictions on overtime work, saying they wanted to draw attention to ongoing pressures within the health-care system.
According to the union, the mediators’ recommendations address several of the key concerns raised by nurses following a tentative agreement reached on May 22. Among the issues highlighted are workplace violence and the growing number of non-nursing tasks being assigned to nurses, duties the union says take health-care professionals away from direct patient care.
