The Health Employers Association of B.C. has now ratified a two-year agreement with the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA) under the Province's 2010 mandate, announced Finance Minister Colin Hansen.
"Renegotiating agreements during these difficult economic times is a complex task, and I appreciate the hard work of the negotiators involved," said Hansen, who is also the Health Services Minister. "These health science professionals play a vital role in our province's health- care system, and I'm pleased that they were able to ratify this new
agreement."
British Columbia's 16,000 unionized health science professionals work in B.C. hospitals and community health facilities as laboratory and medical imaging technologists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dieticians, respiratory therapists and public health inspectors.
With this agreement, more than 99 per cent of B.C.'s approximately 125,000 unionized health-care workers have now signed new agreements.
