The unions representing around 25,000 health-care support workers across Manitoba say they’re postponing a planned strike after reaching a tentative agreement in the early hours on the day workers were expected to start walking the picket lines.
That agreement was reached at 4:25 a.m. between the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union and employers represented by the Provincial Health Labour Relations Secretariat, the unions said in a news release.
Details of the new proposed deal will be shared in the near future at meetings with members, who will then have the chance to cast ballots in a ratification vote.
The tentative agreement means the workers who were ready to strike this morning will report for their scheduled shifts Tuesday.
Those workers include community and facility support workers at Shared Health Manitoba, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Prairie Mountain Health and the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority, and community support workers in the Southern Health region, the release said.
That list also includes workers in Manitoba’s home care program, health-care aides, laundry aides, housekeeping aides, trades, community health centres, dietary aides, ward clerks and recreation co-ordinators at hospitals, health-care centres and personal care homes.