The Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP) has reached a tentative six-year labour agreement with the province's health delivery agency (Provincial Health Labour Relations Services) amid possible strike action.
Union president Jason Linklater says in a news release that the deal with Shared Health can help retain and recruit more specialized healthcare professionals on the front line where Manitobans need them.
Part of the deal includes retroactive wage increases going back to April 1st, 2018. The union represents 56,000 healthcare workers across 44 professions, including paramedics and emergency dispatchers, diagnostic imaging and laboratory technologists, mental health and addictions counsellors, and respiratory therapists.
A strike vote held last month got over 99 per cent support, and the union set a June 15th strike deadline, but later extended it indefinitely.
MAHCP will now vote to ratify the new agreement.
