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A news release from the B.C. CEDAW GROUP A coalition of 12 prominent B.C. women's organizations are calling on Victoria to reverse recent policy changes and cuts to social programmes that specifically harm women and girls in the wake of criticism from the …

More than 2,000 health care workers rallied in Vancouver Saturday afternoon to demand that the provincial government work with their union to avert massive lay-offs expected over the next few months. Hospital Employees’ Union members and supporters …

Burnaby care home delivers walking papers to 35 care aides, health employers “workshop” expanded contracting out of direct patient care A Burnaby long-term care facility is the first to contract out seniors’ personal care in a move the Hospital Employees’ …

Dietary, housekeeping staff on the street by mid-April Thirty-eight health workers at the Normanna Rest Home in Burnaby have received their layoff notices as the seniors’ residential care facility moves to contract out cook, dietary, and housekeeping jobs …

Health care workers from Vancouver Hospital will march to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority CEO Ida Goodreau’s office this afternoon to deliver the message that contracting out important hospital support services to private corporations will compromise …

joint release of BCGEU, CUPE, HEU and HSA Community social services workers resume job action this week, and will focus on delivering their message to provincial politicians that it's time to end wage and benefit discrimination for workers in this sector. …

Printer Friendly Version The B.C. government and its six health authorities today announced a new bureaucracy whose sweeping mandate includes centralizing a number of health services and may prompt a new wave of privatization. But even though these plans …

Eighty-two per cent of British Columbians support talks between government, health employers and health unions to find alternatives to the privatization and contracting out of health care support services, according to a McIntyre and Mustel poll released …

Printer Friendly Version HEU calls on new health services minister to support independent audit of hospital cleaning B.C.’s largest health care union is hoping the province’s new health services minister, Shirley Bond, will take government health care …

In a bid to promote the cost efficiency of public-private partnerships, the Campbell government agency responsible for such arrangements has implicated the Premier’s deputy minister Brenda Eaton by making a questionable claim of a huge public hospital …