Nurses ratify contract with Sask. health organizations

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Saskatchewan nurses have ratified a new contract with the province’s health organizations.

The four-year deal between the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses and the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations was reached earlier this month and ratified after a province-wide vote Wednesday, the union said in a media release.

More than 91 per cent of members who voted were in favour of the new deal.

The contract is retroactive to March 30, 2014, according to the union. Nurses will get two lump-sum payments to a maximum of $800 for both 2014 and 2015, plus a 1.5 per cent wage increase for each of the next two years.

The province’s registered nurses had been without a contract for nearly two years prior to the agreement.