FIQ nurses union representatives have agreed to submit the conciliator’s proposed agreement to its membership.
The conciliator’s recommendation had been presented on Sunday, finally raising some hope, more than 500 days after the expiry of the collective agreement of the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé (FIQ)
The union will hold a vote on October 15, 16 and 17.
FIQ members will also cease their pressure tactics.
The FIQ’s Extraordinary Federal Council met on Monday and Tuesday to study the proposal and decide what to do next. It will now be up to the federation’s 80,000 members – nurses, nursing assistants, respiratory therapists and clinical perfusionists – to decide.
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Last spring, 61 per cent of them had already rejected an agreement in principle, despite a recommendation to accept it.
The mobility required of nurses is still at the heart of the dispute. Health institution managers want to be able to move nurses from one care unit to another, or even from one institution to another, to meet needs.
But nurses refuse, believing that this is a way of denying their expertise by treating them as interchangeable pawns.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews