Bargaining

Four collective agreements — Health Science Professionals, Community Social Services, Community Health, and Nurses — are set to expire on March 31, 2025. In preparation, HSA members across BC are began the bargaining process in the fall of 2024.

Members were invited to bargaining-related chapter meetings. At those meetings, members of your chapter discussed and voted on bargaining proposals submitted by members like you. Proposals that were supported by members of your chapter were be forwarded for discussion at the Bargaining Proposal Conference.

HSPBA Members

The Bargaining Proposal Conference for HSA members took place on November 6-8, 2024 in Burnaby. 

Over 1300 individual bargaining proposals, covering a wide range of issues, were submitted by chapters throughout BC, and delegates to the bargaining proposal conference did the hard work of reviewing, discussing and prioritizing these to help the negotiating committee prepare for talks which are expected to begin in the spring. 

Delegates also elected the following member representatives to serve on the negotiating committee that will lead negotiations with the employer in 2025:

• Doug Herasymuik (Affiliated Employers)
• Jason Tan (Fraser Health Authority)
• Tiger Ye (Interior Health)
• Kyle Collins (Island Health)
• Mandi Ayers (Northern Health Care)
• Kirn Sanghera (Providence Health Care)
• Keiran Shoker (Provincial Health Services Authority)
• Gita Joshi (Vancouver Coastal)

Two members of HSA’s Board of Directors will also sit on the negotiating committee:

• Brooke Carter
• Jing-Yi Ng

NBA, CBA, and CSS Members

HSA also held a Bargaining Proposal Conference for members covered by the Community Social Services, Community Health, and Nurses collective agreements. Negotiations for those contracts are not led by HSA, but by the union with the most members covered by the collective agreement. However, HSA has representation on the bargaining committee to ensure that HSA members’ interests are well represented in contract negotiations.

A joint Bargaining Proposal Conference for members covered by these collective agreements was held on October 28-30, 2024. Delegates to this Bargaining Proposal Conference elected member representatives to serve on their respective Bargaining Committees:

Nicole McIntosh was elected to serve on the negotiating committee for NBA members. McIntosh has been an RPN for 19 years with Providence Health Care and worked in both Acute Adult Psychiatry as well as Geriatric Psychiatry. She has been a steward for 16 years, most recently as a steward at large for Providence Health Care, and current serves on HSA’s elected Board of Directors. This will be McIntosh's third time representing HSA members on the NBA negotiating committee.
 
Nancy Martin was elected to serve on the negotiating committee for CBA members. Martin is an employment placement specialist at Open Door Group in Sechelt and has worked as a general site steward, OHS steward and assistant lead steward.
 
Dawn Marie Goodmurphy was elected to serve on the negotiating committee for CSS members. Goodmurphy is a youth outreach worker at John Howard Society in Campbell River. A lead steward for 9 years, she is also the member at large for Region 1, and served at the bargaining table in the last round of contract negotiations.

Want to learn more about how the bargaining process works? 

Check out this video or visit our Bargaining FAQ.