Nurse strike notice served

Community nurses seck parity with hospital counterparts

THE UNION which represents
community health nurses on the
North Shore served 72-hour
strike notice on April 22,

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

The B.C. Nurses’ Gnion (3CNU)
has been without a contract for 28
months,

BCNU treasurer Marie Mackay
snid the Greater Vancouver Regional
District (GVRD), immediately asked
for mediation. The move preempted
imminent strike action,

Both sides met Thursday with
Labor Relations Board mediator Don
Cott.

MacKay said strike action is not
possible unless the mediator boaks
out of tatks,

“The negotiations have been
going at a snail's pace,” said
MacKay, a North Vancouver resi-
dent who works as a home-care
hurse in Vancouver.

“LT would say they (the meaidber-
uship) are getting a little angry,” she
added.

BCNU mentbers on the North
Shore number 90 and are employed
by the North Shore Union Board of
Health.

The local community health nurs-
es voted 95% in favor of strike
action in February, ft was the first
strike vote in a 50-year work history.

The main stumbling blucks to a
new contract involve:

@ the BCNU’s desire to have one |

contract that applies to the North
Shore, Vancouver, Burnaby and
Richmond community health nurses,
In the past, nursing contracts
_ within the four Lower Mainland
areas have varied despite the fact that
all negotiations are conducted with
the GVRD.The nurses are ‘funded by
‘ the provincial government. ~
f2 BCNU members want parity
wages with nurses in hospitals.
_ Community health nurses work in
“home care, long-term care assess-

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ment and public-health aur-sing,

Some services affected in the
event of a strike would include dis-
charge planning at Liens Gate
Hospital, prenatal and teen health
clinies and same medical care to
seniees in their homes,

Community health murses are cure
really paid a base hourly rate of
$201.25, The BCNU spokesman stat-
ed a nurse performing a comparable
job in a hospital is paid $27.22 per
hour,

MacKay said negotiating parties
have agreed upon four non-monetary:
items. Abou! 40 to 61) items remain
unresolved,

“We certainly have been negotiat-

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ed in good faith for six months and
to get four things signed off is not
tremendous progress, said MacKay.

Nocth Shore Health medical
health offieer Dr. Brian O'Connor
said Thursday that he was hopeful.
hot he did aot know if mediation
could help reach agreement.

Essential services have been
established in the event of a strike.
Mackay said the BCNU strike man-
date runs out in mid-May.

The BCNU points out that com-
munity health nurses will increase
their profile as health care delivery
hecomes more community bused and
hospitals downsize their services as
part of provincial government policy.

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