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B.C. reaches transition agreement with long-term care, assisted living workers
The transition will restore collective bargaining rights and reverse 2004 wage cuts for more than 5,000 workers, costing the province an additional $85 million over two years.
- Dec. 1, 2025: British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne announced more than 5,000 unionized workers will transition to the provincewide Facilities Collective Agreement over two years.
- The move reverses 2004 wage cuts of 50 and restores collective bargaining eligibility for more than 5,000 caregiving workers, aiming to improve wages and care for seniors.
- It covers workers at more than 100 facilities part of the Health Employers Association of B.C. receiving at least 50 per cent government funding, but excludes those with less than 50 per cent funding.
- The change will cost the Province of British Columbia an additional $85 million, while Lynn Bueckert, secretary-business manager, Hospital Employees' Union called it an `important step toward restoring a level playing field` for workers.
- Ratification votes are expected to conclude by Dec. 20, while union officials say past B.C. Liberal governments encouraged privatization that let operators opt out of provincewide agreements.
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Long-term care, assisted living workers reach transition agreement with B.C.
VICTORIA — British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne says a new agreement will make thousands of health care workers eligible for collective bargaining again, but it will cost the province an additional $85 million.
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