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1998
December 11, 1998
Nurses reject Foley report as an inadequate response to the looming nursing shortage
While funding for new positions is welcomed by nurses, the mediator's report would also impose major contract concessions that are completely unfair and unacceptable. More...
December 2, 1998
Nurses suspend job action to await mediator's recommendations
The Nurses' Bargaining Association (NBA) has suspended all job action effective immediately to await a report on recommendations for settlement from Mediator Brian Foley. More...
December 2, 1998
"Not one nickel for nurses" while managers get steep pay increases
Health employers cry poor, but they find enough cash to award themselves big salary hikes and to travel the world at taxpayers' expense. More...
November 30, 1998
Vancouver community health nurses will bolster picket lines at Vancouver General Hospital
Patient care was never at risk, but VGH managers tried to bully nurses back to work by demanding more operating rooms be opened for patients who have been waiting for months. More...
November 30, 1998
Nurses defer picket escalation
As a sign of good faith with the mediator, they decide to maintain pressure on employers by establishing picket lines at five additional sites, and removing the five picket lines that went up Friday. More...
November 29, 1998
Employer action at Nanaimo threatens patient safety
Nurses on the picket lines who should be available for emergency patient care are being ordered to come in to the hospital to deliver meal trays. More...
November 29, 1998
Pickets proceed because previous withdrawals of job action slowed talks
Nurses accuse health employers of spreading misinformation about essential services. Nurses are providing all essential services required, and then some. More...
November 28, 1998
Nurses confirm additional picketing on Monday
Action needed to keep pressure on employers as mediation talks begin. The fight is for better health care for all British Columbians. More...
November 27, 1998
Nurses facilitate urgent cancer surgery at Vancouver General Hospital
Union authorizes nurses to work overtime to open two extra operating rooms. In response, affected physicians agree to abandon their Reduced Activity Days to do cancer surgery. More...
November 26, 1998
Nurses welcome chance to return to bargaining
They received assurances they could discuss all their workload and equality issues at the table. Cathy Ferguson will walk picket lines Friday 7 am at Richmond General Hospital, and at 9 am at St. Paul's Hospital, along with leaders of the Hospital Employees' Union and the Health Sciences Association. More...
November 26, 1998
Nurses will picket 34 additional hospitals on Monday
Affected facilities will join five others scheduled for picketing tomorrow. For more details about the issues in dispute - News conference today 2 pm, BC Nurses' Union offices. More...
November 24, 1998
Nurses announce initial picketing targets for Friday morning
More picket lines will start up on Monday and later next week News Conference at BCNU offices Wednesday, November 25 - 2:00 p.m. More...
November 23, 1998
Bizarre management tactics force nurses to impose overtime ban province-wide
Health care employers are playing games with patient care in an attempt to undermine the nurses= job action, forcing nurses to ban overtime in all acute care facilities effective at noon Tuesday Nov. 24. More...
November 20, 1998
Simon Fraser Region postpones discussion on controversial report
Nurses are pleased with the move. They were prepared to impose an overtime ban on all acute care facilities in the region if the closed-door meeting went ahead. More...
November 17, 1998
Public gives strong support to nurses
Poll shows decisive backing from British Columbians for the nurses' proposals on workload and equality that health employers refuse to discuss. More...
November 17, 1998
Nurses condemn Capital Health Region for cancelling surgeries
Management must answer to patients for this complete over-reaction. The situation shows the public deserves more Registered Nurses in regular positions to deliver quality health care. More...
November 16, 1998
Talks reach an impasse, nurses announce stepped-up job action
Employers offer limited solution to workload concerns, then demand that nurses remove all other proposals on workload and equality from the table. More...
November 12, 1998
Health employers prepare "Virtual Lockout" of health care employees
Once again senior managers appear to be over-reacting to nurses' work-to-rule campaign by preparing to cancel patient services, reduce to essential service levels, prevent nurses from caring for patients, and send other health care employees home when they show up for work. More...
November 10, 1998
Health employers refuse to share key information about patient care needs.
Nurses re-issue 72-hour strike notice. More...
November 6, 1998
Overtime data from health employers is incomplete
Nurses must ask their union stewards to get the information from their own managers about how many regular nurses are needed. More...
October 30, 1998
Nurses begin overtime ban
Talks continue. More...
October 28, 1998
Nurses confirm weekend overtime ban, condemn employers for over-reacting and inconveniencing patients
Employer fears about the impact of an overtime ban confirms nurses' central bargaining message: BC needs more regular full-time nurses to avoid the over-reliance on overtime worked by already over-worked nurses, and by casuals who have inferior benefits and working conditions. More...
October 21, 1998
Nurses serve strike notice
Attempting to improve the quality of care and address nurses' workloads, the initial job action will be a work-to-rule. Nurses will focus exclusively on providing direct patient care. More...
October 16, 1998
ER Nurses Issues and Facts
The situation at both the Royal Jubilee and Victoria General Hospital - workload, concerns about patient care, stress and frustration - are not new issues facing nurses. More...
October 15, 1998
Nurses Give Negotiators Overwhelming Strike Mandate
Margin of 85 per cent shows nurses are fed up with inadequate staffing and growing workloads. More...
October 15, 1998
RN's Demand Wiser Use of Health Care Dollars
Emergency Room (ER) Registered Nurse's at Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital are tired of being told that nursing costs, such as money spent on overtime, are the cause of financial hardship on the region's pocketbook. More...
Oct. 5, 1998
Tri-Cities nurses will speak out today about deficiencies in community care
Patients are being forced to stay in hospital beds or to go home alone when they need care in their communities. More...
October 1,1998
Nurses to take strike vote
Employer has failed to address concerns about quality of care, about workload, and about working conditions that are undermining efforts to attract and retain nurses in BC's health care system. More...
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