{"id":798043,"date":"2026-07-13T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798043\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:11:06","slug":"striking-b-c-nurses-expand-picket-lines-to-vancouver-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798043\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking B.C. nurses expand picket lines to Vancouver Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 minutes ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 2:10<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">B.C. nurses expanded their job action to picket lines across Vancouver Island on Sunday, as contract negotiations remain deadlocked over issues like staffing, violence prevention, and pay. The provincial government has appointed two independent arbitrators to work with both sides to seek a resolution. As the CBC&#8217;s Michelle Morton reports, while the nurses&#8217; union president expressed cautious optimism about the mediation process, she says picketing will continue until a fair agreement is reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20 minutes agoNewsDuration 2:10 B.C. nurses expanded their job action to picket lines across Vancouver Island on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-798043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798043","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=798043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}