{"id":294823,"date":"2025-11-20T05:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294823\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:40:15","slug":"b-c-health-workers-reach-tentative-4-year-deal-with-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/294823\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C.\u00a0health\u00a0workers\u00a0reach tentative 4-year deal with employers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The bargaining association representing more than 67,000\u00a0health-care\u00a0workers\u00a0in B.C.’s hospitals and long-term care facilities says it has reached a new four-year deal with its employers.<\/p>\n

The Facilities Bargaining Association, which represents nine separate unions, says the new deal will see members receive a three per cent general wage increase in each of the four years.<\/p>\n

The association says the agreement also includes increases for some shift premiums, leaves and allowances, and it will also expand occupational safety measures.<\/p>\n

The deal has new supports for Indigenous\u00a0workers\u00a0as well as enhanced workplace diversity and work-life balance measures.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the B.C. Finance Ministry said the agreement with the Health\u00a0Employers Association of\u00a0B.C. also includes a low-wage redress in response to a 15 per cent wage cut imposed on some\u00a0workers\u00a0by the former provincial government in 2004.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An online ratification vote will be held for union members from Dec. 15 to 19.<\/p>\n

Lead negotiator Lynn Bueckert said in a statement that the tentative deal “secures wage improvements to better attract, retain and support front-line\u00a0health care\u00a0workers” in B.C. <\/p>\n

The wage increases in the deal are the same as what B.C. General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) members ratified in their own new agreement with the province, following an eight-week labour dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-294823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}