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The Hospital Employees’ Union is raising the alarm about Lower Mainland health authorities’ plan to completely contract out in-house medical transcription even though costs for limited outsourcing of this service ballooned from $2.4 million to $6 million …

Polling released today by the Hospital Employees’ Union shows one out of three health care workers (33.6 per cent) report coming to work while experiencing cold or flu symptoms because of pressure from their boss not to access sick days. The poll raises …

Rotating job actions are again underway this week in targeted community-based social services agencies, where workers are calling on government to provide the resources needed to improve their wages and working conditions. In Victoria, members of the …

More than 90 health care staff at George Derby Centre, the veterans’ residential care facility in Burnaby, will be out of work by the end of April, 2013 as the centre’s board of directors moves ahead with a controversial plan to contract out food and …

The multi-union Facilities Bargaining  Association will release the results of province-wide strike votes on Saturday, November 3 at 11 a.m. Hospital Employees' Union secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson is the chief spokesperson for the FBA. She …

Health care workers have delivered a strong strike mandate to back their representatives in collective bargaining with B.C.'s health employers. Members of the 11-union Facilities Bargaining Association voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action during …

Note to HEU members: This is the statement to the media released earlier today by the Facilities Bargaining Association. Details of the tentative agreement will be posted to the website, and a comprehensive report and a ratification vote schedule will be …

Workers at George Derby Centre, the veterans’ residential care facility in Burnaby, have had their lay-off notices rescinded after the George Derby Care Society board of directors decided to abandon plans to contract out health support services. …

The closure of Kelowna's Crossroads Treatment Centre would leave an unacceptable gap in detox and addiction treatment services in the Okanagan, says the Hospital Employees' Union. Crossroads announced today that it would be phasing out its detox and …

On January 9, Crossroads Treatment Centre Society announced plans to phase out its detox and addiction counselling programs over the next three to six months despite high demand for those services.   That move would leave the Okanagan without any …