{"id":665136,"date":"2026-05-12T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665136\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:14:09","slug":"b-c-nurses-vote-98-2-in-favour-of-job-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665136\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. nurses vote 98.2% in favour of job action"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nurses in B.C. could be headed for job action following an “overwhelming” strike vote over the weekend.<\/p>\n

According to the B.C. Nurses Union, more than 50,000 nurses voted 98.2 per cent in favour of job action, after six months of bargaining. <\/p>\n

The union says it’s the strongest strike mandate in its history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vote is a defining moment,\u201d union president Adriane Gear said in a news release. \u201cNurses across British Columbia are demanding the respect, safety and fair contract they deserve.\u201d <\/p>\n

In its new contract, the union wants to see systemic risks minimized, to mitigate pressures nurses face \u2014 like unsafe staffing levels, workplace violence and heavy workloads. <\/p>\n

WATCH | Nurses hold rally ahead of strike vote:\"\"<\/p>\n

B.C. Nurses’ Union to hold strike vote in May<\/p>\n

Nurses in this province could go on strike as early as the middle of May as contract negotiations with the Health Employers\u2019 Association of B.C. reached an impasse last week. Now nurses are set to take a strike vote. CBC\u2019s Meera Bains reports from a rally held by the B.C. Nurses’ Union in Vancouver where participants called for safer working conditions and better benefits.<\/p>\n

The results of the vote do not mean nurses will strike imminently, but that they are now legally allowed to take some form of job action as negotiations continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cNurses do not want to be in this position,\u201d Gear said. \u201cYet they are prepared to fight for the future of nursing and for a health-care system that is safe, sustainable and able to retain the nurses that patients rely on.\u201d <\/p>\n

This comes as B.C. continues to grapple with a years-long health-care crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-665136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665136","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=665136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}