Facilities negotiations move slowly, but progress continues
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The Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA) continues to make steady progress in negotiations with health employers. In recent weeks, your bargaining team has gone back and forth with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) on key issues like …
Last updated: Aug 29, 2025
Wage-levelling to end in fully private seniors’ care facilities
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The Ministry of Health has informed some seniors’ care operators and the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) that it will end wage-levelling payments at fully private long-term care and assisted living sites on December 31, 2025. While most HEU members who …
Last updated: Sep 15, 2025
Supportive housing agencies transferring to community health
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On July 10, the B.C. Minister of Finance formally signed an Order in Council declaring 39 supportive housing agencies as “health employers”. That means those employers will be joining the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC), and members will …
Last updated: Jul 29, 2025
Supportive housing agencies transferring to community health
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On July 10, the B.C. Minister of Finance formally signed an Order in Council declaring 39 supportive housing agencies as “health employers”. That means those employers will be joining the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC), and members will …
Last updated: Jul 29, 2025
Health and safety remain the focus of talks with health employers in week 14
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For a third straight week, health and safety improvements were again at the centre of talks between Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA) and health employers’ representatives on July 23 and 24. “This week the FBA presented several health and safety …
Last updated: Sep 25, 2025
Fighting for permanent residency: HEU calls out federal government’s exploitative immigration policies
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Hundreds of health care workers in B.C. are facing the difficult decision of leaving the country or going underground due to the federal changes to the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). These are the workers who clean, feed, and care for patients in …
Last updated: Jul 23, 2025
FBA makes counter proposals on health and safety to employers during week 13
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For a second week, health and safety was the primary focus of talks between representatives of the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) and the Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA) bargaining committee when negotiations resumed on July 16 and 17. …
Last updated: Jul 30, 2025
HEU statement on the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
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Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) is calling on the federal government to take further action to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza and end the mass suffering of Palestinians. HEU represents 68,000 health care workers across British Columbia, who are …
Last updated: Jul 17, 2025
Bargaining update for HEU members in the community health subsector
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The multi-union Community Bargaining Association (CBA) has spent 16 days at the negotiating table with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) to renew a collective agreement covering 21,000 workers in the community health subsector, including …
Last updated: Jul 17, 2025
FBA bargaining committee resumes talks, health and safety focus at table
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Better working conditions were the focus of discussions between the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) and the Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA) bargaining committee when the two parties met on July 9 for week 12 of negotiations on a renewed …
Last updated: Jul 17, 2025