46,000 hospital, long-term care and emergency health services workers have voted 96 percent in favour of strike action.
Most are with the Hosptial Employees’ Union.
Bonnie Pearson with the HEU says it sends a clear message to health employers and government to come back to the bargaining table.
Contracts expired in March — talks began in February.
“No decisions have been made about when the vote would be executed. Our objective is to get back to the table with health employers and government. We’ll be in touch with them early this week to invite them to come back to the table, hopefully find dates.”
Pearson says health employers keep telling them they need to pay for any kind of a modest wage increase by taking it out of their benefit plans.
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