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With a special province-wide strike vote now two-thirds complete, Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) members are voting overwhelmingly in support of a comprehensive action plan to protect jobs and health care services for British Columbians from attacks by …

The start of province-wide strike votes on International Women’s Day, March 8, has prompted the Health Employers Association of B.C. (HEABC) to remove some concession demands, table a counter wage offer, and acknowledge the need to address wage equality …

Medicare campaigners visit Kelowna for public meeting on Thursday evening An ambulance carrying an important message about the future of Medicare will be in Kelowna on Thursday as part of a nine day province-wide tour. The ambulance is staffed by …

HEU secretary-business manager Chris Allnutt available for media comments on the B.C. budget after 2:30 p.m. The 46,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union will be watching tomorrow’s provincial budget closely to see what financial support the NDP government …

The B.C. Health Coalition is calling for an immediate investigation of private surgical clinic billing practices after learning the B.C. government was penalized by the federal government for two separate violations of the Canada Health Act in March. And …

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 …

HEU wins precedent-setting ruling from arbitrator In a precedent-setting ruling, arbitrator Don Munroe has agreed with the Hospital Employees’ Union’s contention that security guards at four hospitals in the Simon Fraser Health Region are employed by …

Printer Friendly Version Privatized hospital workers at three Lower Mainland facilities who cast ballots on union membership more than 16 months ago will finally learn the results of their vote. The BC Labour Relations Board today ruled that an …

HEU comments on today’s provincial budget B.C.’s largest health care union says the injection of $572 million in new operating cash will help get the province’s health care system firing on all cylinders. “This government had a choice: tax cuts or getting …

Police say no link to abortion clinic, but union says we need to take precautions The Hospital Employees’ Union is calling for increased security for health care workers who work in or near the abortion clinic at Kelowna Regional Hospital after the …