VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – You likely won’t be seeing any strike action from the province’s care-aides or ambulance paramedics.

Earlier this month, 96 per cent of voting members from 11 health care unions voted in favour of walking off the job.

But a strike has been averted because a new tentative agreement has been reached.

“It’s over two years, and it includes a moratorium on layoffs due to contracting out for the term of the agreement. It continues the two ambulance contracts. It contains a modest wage increase (not retro-active). Not probably as much as we would have liked to have seen, but one I think that members will find satisfactory,” explains Bonnie Pearson with the Facilities Bargaining Association.

“All of the constituent unions of the association will take it out to their membership for a ratification vote. We hope to have it ratified by Christmas. That’s our objective at this point,” says Pearson.

The deal includes a three per cent wage increase over two years.

Pearson says it’s a “fair” deal for workers and good for taxpayers.      

“You will not being seeing strike action in the facilities sub-sector unless the membership has a contrary opinion and I don’t believe that they will once they see the full terms of the tentative agreement,” adds Pearson.

The current contract expired March 31, 2012 and the proposed deal will end March 31, 2014.