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The three largest health care contractors in the world and a local company that last year lost a cleaning contract at B.C. Children’s and Women’s Hospital are among seven companies that have been shortlisted by the Fraser Health Authority for lucrative …

Employees of the French multinational Sodexho who work at a private, for-profit seniors retirement complex in Port Coquitlam have voted to join the Hospital Employees’ Union to win stronger representation and better opportunities to improve wages and …

Gorge Road Hospital’s health care workers are holding a rally tomorrow afternoon to protest the hospital’s closure, which organizers say will unnecessarily turn the lives of 800 people upside down. Speakers will talk about the effects of the closure on …

Sodexho has accepted mediator Vince Ready's recommendations for a first collective agreement with the Hospital Employees' Union. The contract terms apply to about 1400 dietary, cleaning and other support staff who work in contracted services at hospitals …

A consumer education campaign urging London Drugs' executives to challenge the B.C. Liberal government's Pharmacare changes goes province-wide this weekend. Volunteers with the B.C. Health Coalition will leaflet consumers on Saturday, January 11 at four …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is guardedly optimistic about a promise by MLA Gordon Hogg that his government will take action to fix food quality at Peace Arch Hospital, its extended-care facility and at other area hospitals. The Surrey-White Rock MLA …

Campaign to maintain quality care for facility residents a success The 23 care aides at Point Grey Private Hospital — members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) who waged a high profile public campaign to keep their jobs and maintain quality care for …

The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says it’s strongly opposed to plans being considered that would significantly cut benefit provisions for more than 36,000 retired health care and municipal workers and is encouraging both pensioners and workers …

Vancouver woman asks union to deliver patient information she received by e-mail to health minister The Hospital Employees' Union is calling on Health Minister Mike Farnworth to launch an investigation into the management of diagnostic lab billings and …

B.C.’s health care unions have won an important early legal round in their Charter of Rights and Freedoms challenge of the Campbell government’s contract-breaking legislation Bill 29, which stripped longstanding legal protections from collective …