The B.C. government and its health authorities announce new bureaucracy whose sweeping mandate includes centralizing a number of health services and may prompt a new wave of...
HEU says it’s time for government to act on proven public solutions that will improve health care and protect British Columbians from growing pressures to pay out-of-pocket for...
BCHC news release: The B.C. government is once again poised to conclude another session of the legislature without taking action to resolve seniors’ health care concerns
B.C.’s largest health care union says that patients and seniors would benefit from comprehensive whistleblower legislation that protects health care workers from employer reprisals...
Documents related to $650 million in health privatization deals kept under wraps; government says reports or evaluations of cost effectiveness don’t exist
New numbers released today by the BC Health Coalition show that there are fewer residential care beds in the Interior Health Authority (IHA) than when the BC Liberals were elected...
The provincial government has an historic opportunity to address the growing crisis in seniors’ and patient care by reviewing its position on contracting out
Government documents obtained by the BC Health Coalition expose plans to expand the contracting out of surgeries to for-profit clinics regardless of the outcome of the Conversation...
Health care unions met today with representatives of the provincial government to deal with the repercussions of last June’s landmark Supreme Court decision
Good progress has been on non-monetary items after two days of bargaining between HEU members at Summerland Seniors Village and Well-Being Seniors Services Inc. During the July...
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada ruling on Bill 29, most British Columbians don’t believe that the controversial law improved patient care, according to new poll
The operators of a seniors’ care facility in Nanaimo have cancelled their sub-contract for care services resulting in pink slips for more than 150 care aides, licensed practical...
A decision by B.C. Liberal MLAs to support a 29 per cent wage increase for themselves is unacceptable when they refuse to raise the minimum wage and continue to support low-wage...
Bargaining for more than 115 HEU and 6 BC Nurses' Union members providing support and care to residents at the Kensington, Parkwood Place and Parkwood Court in Victoria have...
After months of hard bargaining, a 99-per cent strike mandate and the assistance of a mediator, 150 HEU CareSource members at Nanaimo Seniors Village have a first collective...
Labour Relations Board-appointed mediator/arbitrator Stan Lanyon has awarded the terms of a first collective agreement between HEU and Compass Group...
After nearly a year of bargaining, more than 700 HEU members on Vancouver Island have a first collective agreement with their British employer, Compass Group.
More than 700 HEU members working for Compass Group on Vancouver Island are awaiting the final outcome of a Labour Relations Board mediation/arbitration process that will establish...
The B.C. Liberal government’s refusal to make long-term investments to support health care in the province’s growing communities undermines innovation and spells more uncertainty...
Contract talks covering dietary and housekeeping workers employed by WestCana at Arranglen Gardens in Qualicum will resume on March 5 and 6 with the assistance of Labour Relations...
The BC Health Coalition is calling on the provincial government to suspend plans to privatize health services during the course of its year-long Conversation on Health.
HEU CareSource members working at Nanaimo Seniors Village have overwhelmingly rejected a tentative settlement, outlined in a recent interim report by mediator Stephen Rinfret, by a...
Printer-Friendly Version A Labour Relations Board-appointed arbitrator will hold hearings on March 13, 14 and 16 before ruling on a first collective agreement for about 700 Compass...
It’s time to stop playing budget politics with British Columbians’ health care and to start putting in place proven public solutions that will improve care for patients, says the...
More than 700 HEU members are one step closer to a first contract with Compass – the company contracted by the Vancouver Island Health Authority to provide housekeeping and dietary...
