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Printer Friendly Version B.C.’s health minister must act now to stop a for-profit emergency room from opening its doors next week, says the Hospital Employees’ Union . According to media reports, the False Creek Surgical Centre – a for-profit medical …

Printer Friendly Version A lucrative contract for patient food services in Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast hospitals tying taxpayers to a $300 million payout over ten years has been awarded to a foreign corporation and will result in 1,300 staff — most …

Union demands that Premier Campbell cancel tenders and calls on Auditor General to investigate Telephone recordings and affidavits released by the B.C. Federation of Labour Friday detailing plans for deep wage cuts, mass firings of health care workers, …

B.C. unions representing more than 100,000 health care workers today launched legal action in B.C. Supreme Court alleging that the Campbell government’s contract-breaking legislation, Bill 29 , violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is …

Printer Friendly Version The BC Health Coalition joined other medicare advocacy groups from across Canada today to send a clear message to the nation’s first ministers: We need to fix health care, not privatize it. The Coalition says that after a decade …

Nurses and health care workers will be staging a lunch time protest parade today at UBC Hospital to highlight planned cuts at their facility. They’re trying to protect key services for patients by highlighting planned cuts to the hospital’s Discharge …

B.C.’s largest health care union has some friendly advice for the province’s doctors: Don’t trust Gordon Campbell’s word. The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) issued the warning after the premier and the B.C. Medical Association inked an agreement Tuesday …

Results released as ambulance arrives at St. Paul's with Medicare trauma patient British Columbians say Ottawa should intervene to stop Alberta premier Ralph Klein from legalizing private hospitals according to a McIntyre & Mustel poll commissioned by the …

Rather than facing the music in regional centers, Campbell Liberals to hold tightly controlled media briefing in Lower Mainland The Campbell Liberals are ordering health authority CEOs and board chairs to release details of deep health cuts in Vancouver …

Mistrust factor looms large as Campbell prepares to announce major health cuts and hospital closures Just days before the Campbell government is expected to announce major health cuts, hospital closures and privatization, a new public opinion poll …