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B.C.’s largest health care union extended its best wishes today to the province’s new health minister, Corky Evans. The 46,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union says Evans is known as a strong advocate of public medicare and a supporter of better …

HEU condemns government cuts to public services Today, Hospital Employees' Union members at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, in solidarity with the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union, are dressing in black as visible condemnation of the …

Ailing hospital threatened with public/private partnership replacements Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union who work at the Gorge Road Hospital will be at the Capital Health Region meeting tonight to tell the board that public/private partnerships …

Printer Friendly Version The Provincial Executive of the Hospital Employees’ Union has decided not to reappoint secretary-business manager Chris Allnutt when his term expires at the union’s biennial convention this October. In the meantime, Allnutt is on …

Fair wage increase, parity for community caregivers, measures to modernize Medicare on unions’ priority list Contract talks for more than 60,000 health care workers from hospitals, long-term care facilities and community health services get underway in …

LPNs, Care Aide utilization part of progressive strategy The Hospital Employees’ Union is enthusiastically welcoming today’s announcement by the NDP of significant new funding for progressive health action plan initiatives designed to improve health care …

Noon rally features CUPE national president Judy Darcy and BC Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair Hundreds of health care workers will rally later today outside the Richmond headquarters of the Workers’ Compensation Board. They’re speaking out …

And HEU's Chris Allnutt will report to convention delegates on the political and bargaining climate facing the 46,000-member union This morning, Premier Ujjal Dosanjh speaks to more than 600 health care workers from across B.C. who are gathered in …

Negative impact of job losses reaches beyond health care into the heart of B.C. communities B.C.’s health care system will be reeling from the loss of more than 9,000 skilled and experienced health care workers by mid-2004, says the Hospital Employees’ …

New study outlines timely, concrete solutions The Hospital Employees’ Union says a just-completed, comprehensive research study into the roles and utilization of Licensed Practical Nurses and Care Aides provides a road map for concrete solutions to the …