Public Service Alliance of Canada BC

updated August 23: A tentative agreement has been reached, and all job action has ceased, pending ratification.
The BCNU Members of Joye Morris Health Services Inc. voted across the Province July 27, 2006, 94% in favour of strike. BCNU represents the members who work in the Health Centres at ten Provincial Jails operated by the private contractor, Joye Morris.

The two parties have been in negotiations to secure a renewal collective agreement since May 1, 2006. The current collective agreement expired on March 31, 2006.

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Canada’s 130,000 Registered Nurses today challenged Stephen Harper and the other political party leaders to explain clearly how they would protect our public medicare system from the private for-profit medical entrepreneurs who are poised to destroy it.They issued the challenge as a new Ipsos-Reid poll (pdf) showed that Canadians strongly support our not-for-profit medicare system and fear more private health care will draw health care professionals away from our public system and lead to a for-profit American health care system.

Read more at bcnu.org.