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All three major unions at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have joined forces in an ongoing arbitration to bring security staff under the collective agreement between the facility and the Hospital Employees’ Union. “We are pleased to have the B.C. …

Health care workers and other medicare advocates in B.C. joined thousands of demonstrators across Canada today to demand immediate action by Ottawa to stop privatization of medicare. "We are on the brink of Canada's biggest medical emergency ever," Jim …

HEU pleased with government’s broad-based approach The Hospital Employees’ Union says today’s announcement by the provincial government of 89 new training spaces for Licenced Practical Nurses (LPNs) is a positive move that will help ease B.C.’s chronic …

Striking health care workers wonder how employer can afford it The employer at Imperial Place in Surrey seems to have resorted to bullying tactics — both of its striking workers and of the residents in the private, for-profit independent living facility. …

HEU questions whether health authorities exercised due diligence in privatizing services, calls for government investigation Foreign companies contracted to clean operating rooms, intensive care units and patient wards at major hospitals are paying wages …

With one week left before contracts for 60,000 health care workers expire, unions say bargaining is at a critical stage With little more than a week left before collective agreements expire for 60,000 health services and support workers, health care …

Forced relocation of Burnaby facility residents increases risk of death Burnaby’s Cascade Residence will shut its doors March 31, 2003 despite the negative impact that relocation has on nursing home residents and in the absence of any plans to accommodate …

Oppenheimer Park, 1:45 p.m., Monday, March 12 Community health workers, members of the Hospital Employees' Union, are holding a brief rally and march on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to draw attention to the gap that exists between their wages and those …

Private health care giant MDS Inc. could face some major turbulence in upcoming lab restructuring talks in B.C., after a special research investigation found the company is a major financial backer of a controversial private hospital in Calgary that …