B.C. nurses allege employer threats and intimidation due to job action<\/p>\n
Published 10:18 am Tuesday, July 7, 2026<\/p>\n
Striking nurses are reporting \u201cwidespread employer intimidation\u201d as job action ramps up.<\/p>\n
\u201cNursing managers have started to threaten nurses, saying, \u2018If you don\u2019t clean a stretcher or if you don\u2019t pick up something or stock something \u2014 these sorts of extra duties \u2014 then we\u2019re going to report you to the College,\u2019\u201d B.C. Nurses\u2019 Union President Adriane Gear told Black Press Media on Tuesday, July 7. \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of bullying and intimidation at the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nurses have filed more than 1,400 reports of intimidation since job action began on July 2. These nurses say they are being threatened with discipline, told they could lose their licences and being forced to work overtime or perform non-nursing duties.<\/p>\n
Gear said patient care is a protected essential service that will continue, but it is the striking workers\u2019 right to refuse to perform extra duties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that the employer is taking this time to intimidate people as opposed to focusing on doing those tasks themselves is a problem,\u201d Gear said.<\/p>\n
The union is expanding job action in response, planning to set up picket lines on Thursday at Surrey Memorial Hospital and the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre. Picket lines were already up at Vancouver General Hospital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Attorney General Niki Sharma was asked about the allegations of intimidation at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we\u2019re a government that supports the right of workers to strike and the power of labour to improve working conditions for people,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we hope that at the collective bargaining table, all issues can be resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n
More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. nurses allege employer threats and intimidation due to job action Published 10:18 am Tuesday, July 7, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-786647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786647","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=786647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}