Health care workers who were prepared to go on strike this week will instead vote on the Manitoba government’s final contract offer.
As The Reminder reported last week, local members of the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP) held an information picket last Wednesday.
MAHCP members across the province were picketing to communicate their plan to go on strike this week if the province did not present a contract offer to the union’s bargaining team by Sunday, Jan. 31.
According to the MAHCP website, the Labour Relations Secretariat presented the government’s final settlement offer to the MAHCP Central Table Bargaining Committee on Friday, Jan. 29.
The MAHCP bargaining committee has agreed to present this offer to members. Details and schedules were to follow this week.
MAHCP members include lab technicians, social workers, pharmacists and many other skilled health care workers.
Their union has been without a contract since March 2014.
