Ontario Nurses' Association members who work at the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit are holding an information picket at Windsor City Hall Monday night.
They're looking for a new contract and have a conciliation session set for Thursday.
The 86 nurses have been without a contract for nearly a year at this point.
Barb Deter is President of ONA Local 8 at the Health Unit.
Speaking on AM800's The Afternoon News, she says their goal is for a fair collective agreement.
"We certainly don't want to go out on strike, but we do want to reach a good agreement. We have a lot of invaluable programs and service that we provide every day to the residents of Windsor and Essex County. We just would really like to keep doing that"
Deter says they're looking for parity with other health units.
"Right now it's wages, wages is our big point where there's the employer who's walked away and we are just asking for a very fair agreement as compared to health units across Ontario"
She says the members do a lot in the community.
"We've got the public health nurses and we have registered practical nurses. They do school immunization and health teaching. We have our healthy families program where we visit moms and babies. We do parenting counselling. We have smoking cessation"
The nurses will be in a legal strike position as of March 8, 2019.
Deter says they are frustrated because the employer has walked away from the table.
There are Nurse Practitioners, Public Health Nurses and Registered Practical Nurses at the health unit.