More than 21,000 health care workers in the Community Bargaining Association (CBA) – including 2,300 HEU members – will get a three per cent wage increase on April 1.
During the 2022-2025 round of contract talks, the CBA negotiated a general wage increase for the third year of the collective agreement (2024-2025) that was linked to the annual inflation rate.
Based on B.C.’s cost-of-living calculations between March 2023 and February 2024, the full inflationary adjustment was triggered, leading to the maximum three per cent pay boost.
That means since the expiry of the CBA’s previous contract, members in each wage grid will have received an average pay increase of between 14 and 16 per cent since April 1, 2022.
This is the highest three-year wage increase for B.C. health care workers in a generation.
If you have any questions, please contact an HEU shop steward or HEU staff representative.
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