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The Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA), led by the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU), has secured two separate agreements to fund a new training program for 47 Facilities’ members to become qualified medical lab assistants (MLAs). The FBA reached the …

The Ministry of Health’s announcement to hire 320 in-house protection services officers to address violence in B.C. hospitals is welcome news for many workers and unions.  “Injuries from incidents of aggression or violence are the second largest reason …

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“I was an RN in Ethiopia. When I immigrated to Canada, I became a care aide. I’m currently an LPN and I’ve been an HEU member for 25 years. I work for a private facility where wage levelling with the Single Site Order during the pandemic was a huge thing …

“My mother was an HEU member and so were many women on my mom’s side of the family.  My mom worked as a food service worker at St Paul’s hospital during the contracting out.  I was five when she was fired and from a very young age I saw the impact of …

“I work at one of the first long-term care facility that had COVID in Canada. We were also one of the first long-term care facility to unionize during the pandemic. Those were really difficult times for us as workers. Because it was the first outbreak …

“For the past four and a half years, I have cared for seniors and people with disabilities. I work the morning shift as a care aide in long term care in Surrey and started doing this work to give back to my community. As care aides, we bring tools to this …

“I’ve been working in health care since 1985 as a care aide, and I am on the HEU’s Indigenous People’s committee.  Union activism has given me a voice. It helps me step into my power and feel supported by other people.  I grew up on a reserve on Vancouver …

The unwinding of single-site restrictions is moving quickly, as the Provincial Health Officer orders restricting multi-site health care workers to a single site are expected to be lifted by December 31, 2022.  Health care workers with more than one job in …