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About two dozen St. Paul’s Hospital employees are staging a sit-in at this hour outside the office of Providence Health Care CEO Carl Roy to protest plans to lay off 275 food service workers. Roy’s office is located at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown …

Year-end survey provides bleak snapshot of conditions on health care’s front lines Nine out of ten workers agree that the way things are going in B.C.’s health care system, mistakes will be made that will harm or kill patients. That’s just one of the …

Hospital future in jeopardy, as health board ignores widespread public opposition The Hospital Employees’ Union says the Simon Fraser Health Board’s announced plan to close Burnaby Hospital’s 205-bed, extended care Cascade Residence in the face of …

Printer Friendly Version Government appointees to B.C.’s six health authority boards pocketed $1,002,572 in directors’ fees last year, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. Financial documents, obtained by the union under the provisions of the Financial …

Today’s throne speech is a frank admission by the B.C. Liberal government that nearly three years into their mandate they have failed to deliver on health care, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. Even though it’s the largest program area of government …

Printer Friendly Version Health care workers are holding protest lines around B.C. health care facilities in response to Bill 37 — legislation that imposed deep wage cuts while continuing to leave health authorities a free hand to contract out work and …

Printer Friendly Version Move will affect patient care and impact the economic base of island communities, says union The Vancouver Island Health Authority’s move to fire more than 1,000 health care workers and turn over critical infection control and …

The Hospital Employees' Union today called on the BC government to treat health care and other public sector workers in a fair and equitable manner at the bargaining table after legislators today voted themselves a 15 per cent wage hike. "We don't …

A construction accident that caused major water damage to the hospital’s emergency room and to patient records could have been avoided if hospital managers had used their own employees to do the work, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The union says …

How to become a Licensed Practical Nurse in B.C. In the midst of B.C.’s ongoing nursing shortage, the Hospital Employees’ Union has produced a new publication for health care workers and others who are thinking about a career in nursing or who want to …