Vancouver health care workers voted in support of a strike in negotiations with hospitals are not successful. The 46,000 workers have been negotiating since February, mainly over wage increases and benefit costs. The union says that the vote does not mean that there will be a strike, and that they intend to continue negotiating. The workers last struck in 2004, for seven weeks. The union says that workers who are deemed essential would still report to work during a strike, but would only perform those roles.
See "Health care workers give union a strike mandate", Zoe McKnight, Vancouver Sun, November 4, 2012