A strike among some of the province’s 16,000 licensed practical nurses and health-care aides appears to be over almost as soon as it started.

The health workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) went on strike as of 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning, but the union issued a news release just after 9 a.m. to say that a tentative deal had been reached.

A news conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. to share details of the tentative agreement reached for nursing care workers. The deal still has to be ratified by union members.

“There were a lot of people up late last night trying to bridge that gap,” Premier Danielle Smith said on her radio call-in show Saturday.

Progress had been made at the negotiating table in recent days, though heading into Saturday the two sides

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