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Health care workers will vote on an agreement, struck late Wednesday between their unions and the Northern Health Authority, that exchanges contract concessions for protections against contracting out. If ratified during votes scheduled over the next two …

Health care workers are demanding that the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority come clean with the public on the impact of $175 million in cuts it plans to make to health services in the region. The VCHA redesign and budget management plan for 2003/04 to …

Printer Friendly Version Health employers won’t budge from demands for massive contract concessions, won’t put layoffs on hold during talks Health unions are questioning why B.C.’s health employers requested the services of a Labour Relations Board …

Printer Friendly Version Choice is unanimous for housekeepers at Eagle Ridge, Mission Memorial The Hospital Employees’ Union has scored two more organizing victories as employees of the French global giant Sodexho who provide housekeeping services at two …

Health coalition says minister of intermediate, long-term and home care should resign Citing information contained in a secret government report and new figures that show that the B.C. Liberals’ seniors’ care strategy is in serious trouble, a coalition of …

On Thursday at 10 a.m., the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will release a study by Simon Fraser University economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen on the effects of health privatization on women workers and their wages. March 8 is International Women’s Day. …

The Communities Solidarity Coalition is holding a rally at the Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health later today to protest government plans to shut down in-patient respite/rehab services for families of kids who have multiple developmental …

Printer Friendly Version Health unions are pushing for an early meeting with a mediator, appointed today by the Labour Relations Board, to see if he can help convince health employers to put layoffs on hold while efforts are made to secure a new contract …

HEU files information request to obtain details of Fraser Health Authority’s expense claims The health services minister must establish guidelines for health executive expense claims, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). The call comes on the heels …

The Northern Health Authority’s plan — announced earlier today — to commit taxpayers to decade-long agreements with private corporations is an unnecessary gamble, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). The union is questioning why the health authority …