BCNU Congratulates New Cabinet

The BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU) congratulates all ministers appointed to the provincial cabinet and looks forward to working with the new government on the challenges facing BC’s nurses and patients.

The union is particularly looking forward to working with new health minister Josie Osborne on building a stronger health-care system that will support nurses in providing patients with high-quality care when they need it. Key to that will be continuing to lead the country with the implementation of minimum nurse-to-patient ratios across hospital settings and leading the world with the introduction of nurse staffing ratios in long-term care and community care settings. It also requires addressing workplace violence and other serious health and safety risks nurses and other health-care workers regularly face.

BCNU will be looking to negotiate a new Nurses’ Bargaining Association collective agreement that prioritizes the retention and recruitment of nurses to staff our health-care system and ensures BC is the best province in the country to be a nurse.

The union thanks former health minister Adrian Dix for his years of service in that role and his leadership in navigating the province through the COVID-19 pandemic and introducing minimum nurse-to-patient ratios.

The BC Nurses’ Union