Contract negotiations

HSA members at West Coast Medical Imaging met earlier this month to set priorities for bargaining a new collective agreement. The current contract expires March 31, 2024. At meetings held in Victoria and New Westminster, members reviewed bargaining priorities submitted by members working at 18 sites in the Lower Mainland and Lower Island, both of which focused on themes of...

All full- and part-time health science professionals covered by the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association collective agreement have until November 15 to review their job descriptions and new employer-assigned classification profiles – and HSA has launched an online tool that will make this much, much easier than it sounds. The tool, which you can access on your phone or laptop...

You must respond to the letter from your former employer no later than October 14. BC health authorities have begun contacting former employees with instructions on how to access any retroactive payment they may be eligible to receive under the terms of the 2022-2025 Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA) collective agreement. Former employees should have recently received or will...

This fall, all HSA members in the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association will have the opportunity to help modernize the health care system, ensure your role in that system is clearly recognized, and confirm that you are paid for the full range of the work you do. Over 18,000 HSA members work as health science professionals in over 70 different...

Employers to recognize nurses at 15-, 20-, 25- and 30-year career milestones Representatives for the Nurses’ Bargaining Association have successfully negotiated a final interpretation of App XX: MOA: Wage Schedule Adjustment with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) intended to pay registered psychiatric nurses based on their years of seniority or relevant nursing experience. RPNs who have reached 15-...

A total of $12 million has been made available to health science professional members over four years Speaking to delegates at HSA’s annual convention in Vancouver, President Kane Tse today announced the union has secured another $3 million to support professional development training for members covered by the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association Collective Agreement. The new funding will be...

Your bargaining committee has achieved an historic agreement that delivers record-setting compensation for BC nurses. It provides meaningful incentives that will help retain nurses today and attract the nurses needed for the future. And with the groundbreaking Ministry of Health commitment on mandatory nurse-patient ratios, the employers must make significant improvements to address shortages over the next three years. The...

The tentative 2022-2025 collective agreement reached by your NBA bargaining team on March 31 is an historic achievement delivering record-setting compensation for BC’s nurses. It comes after months of meetings between NBA negotiators and HEABC, bringing the collective voice of thousands of nurses to the bargaining table. The proposed collective agreement contains many meaningful incentives that will help retain nurses...

The Nurses’ Bargaining Association (NBA) bargaining committee reached a tentative collective agreement with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) this evening. The terms of settlement include record-setting compensation for BC’s nurses. The agreement comes after months of meetings between NBA negotiators and HEABC, bringing the collective voice of thousands of nurses to the bargaining table. The NBA bargaining committee...

CSS Bargaining Update: Inflation-protection measures in tentative agreement mean maximum pay increase for 2023 Voting on tentative agreement still open, but closes 4:00 PM DST today The community social services tentative agreement that members are still voting on across the province includes wage protections to adjust the April 1, 2023 wage increases according to the impact of inflation in the...