HSAS members vote “yes”

The province's longest running heath care dispute has officially come to an end.

Members of the Health Sciences Association have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new contract agreement with health care employers.

The contract talks dragged on for nearly two years. The new contract expires in 2013.

Health Sciences represents more than three-thousand specialized health care professionals in the province including hospital pharmacists, respiratory and rehab professionals, such as physical therapists.

In a news release HSAS president Cathy Dickson said “Health Sciences will continue to campaign for an end to the chronic under-staffing of our specialized professions, because under-staffing has created long waiting lists for many of our services, and a dangerous lack of access to others. We will continue to call for health care employers to be made publicly accountable for their staffing decisions.”

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She said the union will continue to bring these issues to the public’s attention in the months and years ahead.

nmaxwell@panow.com