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Dietary, housekeeping staff on the street by mid-April Thirty-eight health workers at the Normanna Rest Home in Burnaby have received their layoff notices as the seniors’ residential care facility moves to contract out cook, dietary, and housekeeping jobs …

Health care workers from Vancouver Hospital will march to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority CEO Ida Goodreau’s office this afternoon to deliver the message that contracting out important hospital support services to private corporations will compromise …

joint release of BCGEU, CUPE, HEU and HSA Community social services workers resume job action this week, and will focus on delivering their message to provincial politicians that it's time to end wage and benefit discrimination for workers in this sector. …

Printer Friendly Version The B.C. government and its six health authorities today announced a new bureaucracy whose sweeping mandate includes centralizing a number of health services and may prompt a new wave of privatization. But even though these plans …

Eighty-two per cent of British Columbians support talks between government, health employers and health unions to find alternatives to the privatization and contracting out of health care support services, according to a McIntyre and Mustel poll released …

Printer Friendly Version HEU calls on new health services minister to support independent audit of hospital cleaning B.C.’s largest health care union is hoping the province’s new health services minister, Shirley Bond, will take government health care …

In a bid to promote the cost efficiency of public-private partnerships, the Campbell government agency responsible for such arrangements has implicated the Premier’s deputy minister Brenda Eaton by making a questionable claim of a huge public hospital …

Despite several overtures by the Hospital Employees’ Union to help Simon Fraser Lodge deal with its stated budget problems, the Prince George long-term care facility has opted to hire a private contractor and fire all its skilled dietary, housekeeping, …

Health care workers at Sunset Lodge are deeply disappointed that an offer to help the facility deal with its budget pressures has been dismissed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). During the past two weeks fired workers at the Victoria long-term …

Laid off hospital workers hold solidarity BBQ as mass firings near With hundreds of health care workers about to hit Vancouver’s unemployment lines, the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) has lodged unfair labour practice complaints at the Labour Relations …