HEU calls on health authority to audit Penticton care facility
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The Hospital Employees' Union is calling on the Interior Health Authority to audit the books of a for-profit Penticton care facility that is threatening to lay off 60 care staff and contract out their work. Wednesday afternoon, about 60 care aides, …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Tentative agreement will protect care and services at The Hamlets at Penticton
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The Hospital Employees’ Union has reached a tentative agreement with the operator of The Hamlets at Penticton which will protect continuity of care for seniors at the Duncan Avenue long-term care and assisted living facility. The agreement includes modest …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Contract ratified by 87 per cent vote by workers at The Hamlets
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Health care workers – represented by the Hospital Employees’ Union – voted 87 per cent in favour of ratifying a three-year contract with H&H Total Care Services Inc., the operator of The Hamlets at Penticton, a long-term care and assisted living facility …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Darcy to step down as HEU’s chief negotiator to seek public office
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Hospital Employees’ Union secretary-business manager Judy Darcy is stepping down from her position as the union’s chief negotiator and spokesperson, a job she’s held since 2005. She is making the move after her successful bid for the NDP nomination in New …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
HEU announces new chief negotiator
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The Hospital Employees’ Union today announced that veteran union negotiator Bonnie Pearson will succeed Judy Darcy as the union’s secretary-business manager. The appointment by the union’s Provincial Executive is effective immediately. Darcy announced …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Throne Speech: Clarity needed on public sector bargaining direction
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The Hospital Employees’ Union says that the government is sending mixed messages on its direction for public sector bargaining next year. HEU’s secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson says that she’s glad to hear government state in today’s Throne …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
More than 350 mid-Island health workers hit hard by long weekend announcements
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Health care workers and their families at care facilities in Parksville and Nanaimo were forced to spend the long weekend worrying about how they’d make ends meet after Friday afternoon announcements of impending wage cuts and the contracting out of their …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Nanaimo nursing home operator issues lay-off notices
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A nursing home operator in Nanaimo is bringing in the New Year by issuing lay-off notices to more than 150 local health care workers. Mississauga-based Chartwell Seniors’ Housing REIT – the operator of Malaspina Gardens – today gave six months’ notice of …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Acacia Ty Mawr Lodge to contract out all care and support staff
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The owner of Acacia Ty Mawr Lodge intends to contract out all the jobs at the Shawnigan Lake seniors’ residential facility, putting more than 30 directly-employed care aides, recreation aides, licensed practical nurses, and dietary, kitchen and laundry …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Health unions seek “fair and reasonable” settlement as talks begin Tuesday
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[BURNABY] Unions representing 46,000 B.C. health care workers will sit down with employers and government to begin negotiations for a new collective agreement on Tuesday. The Hospital Employees’ Union will lead the 12-union Facilities Bargaining …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021