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Bargaining

BCNU Gears Up for Provincial Contract Negotiations

Planning is underway for Nurses’ Bargaining Association (NBA) contract negotiations with a series of two-day regional bargaining conferences scheduled across the province in the coming months. These events, along with an upcoming bargaining survey, will …

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The parties agree to the principles of pay equity. …

Bargaining Resumes in Victoria

  On Nov. 3 and 4, your Nurses Bargaining Association (NBA) provincial bargaining committee met with employer representatives in Victoria. The committee wasted no time, and BCNU President Adriane Gear presented 16 proposals related to desperately needed …

Small Tables Begin

  Small table discussions begin This week marked the beginning of small table discussions, where the NBA provincial bargaining committee and health employers meet in focused working groups to examine specific contract areas – starting with occupational …

Arbitrator Vince Ready Issues Order Regarding NBA Benefits

For more than a decade, health employers have argued that benefit costs represent a growing share of total compensation. That position has repeatedly surfaced at the bargaining table and in 2019, the parties agreed to cost-savings measures set out in …
Bargaining

NBA Provincial Bargaining Committee Tables Majority of Proposals

  NEW YEAR, SAME PRIORITIES Members of the NBA provincial bargaining committee met with health employers this week as provincial bargaining resumed in the new year. As we enter a critical year for nurses across the province, bargaining is front and …
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Appendix U.1, Job Action Preparation, and Employer Responses

  Appendix U.1 and the Vince Ready deadline  Today, Jan. 30, marks the deadline set out in Labour Arbitrator Vince Ready’s interim order. That order required the Nurses’ Bargaining Association (NBA) and health employers to agree on a date by which one of …

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25.01 Master Work Schedule When a new master work schedule is being developed, the Employer shall, wherever possible, develop an equitable master work schedule of off-duty and on-duty days and shifts. Each regular em- ployee shall be assigned to a place …
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Our Benefits. Our Fight.

  With the Jan. 30 deadline now passed, health employers are continuing their push to have Arbitrator Vince Ready make a decision on nurses’ benefits. They are pressing Ready to decide on Appendix U.1, and we expect he may soon order participation in an …