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New contract improves caring conditions, strengthens health care — unions Unions representing 46,000 front-line health care workers say a tentative contract reached this afternoon with B.C.’s health employers will strengthen the public health care system. …

Union's support based on its struggle against wage discrimination The Hospital Employees' Union says it strongly supports legislation introduced today in Victoria to enshrine pay equity into law along with the fundamental principle that women and men …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union and Retirement Concepts’ subsidiary Well-Being Seniors’ Services Ltd. at Kamloops Seniors Village will be back at the bargaining table on August 10 in another attempt to reach a first collective …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union says a new provincial government scheme that will eventually deliver 20 per cent of hospital funding through volume-based competitive pricing for selected procedures may have a negative impact on …

Alternative Federal Budget has prescription for ailing health care system A McIntyre & Mustel poll commissioned by the Hospital Employees' Union shows overwhelming support in B.C. for increased health care spending over debt reduction and tax cuts in this …

Printer Friendly Version Tentative agreement improves wages, secures workplace rights The Hospital Employees’ Union has reached a tentative first contract with ARAMARK Corporation that improves wages and guarantees other rights and protections for 700 …

The union says raising wages for B.C.’s lowest wage earners will mean a healthier population. The Hospital Employees’ Union welcomes today’s announcement by the provincial government that it will be raising the minimum wage to $7.60 on Nov. 1 this year, …

Printer Friendly Version Wages and job security will be key issues for health care unions as collective bargaining gets underway today for a new contract covering 38,000 hospital and long-term care workers. Backgrounder While most public sector workers …

Printer Friendly Version About 60 long-term care workers employed by U.K.-based Compass Group at two Lower Mainland long-term care homes will see their wages rise by as much as $2.32 an hour, as a result of an award issued Monday by a Labour Relations …

Day of protest blocked, but union pledges creative actions to fight Campbell's "legislative vandalism" The Hospital Employees' Union says it will abide by last night's Labour Relations Board ruling filed in Supreme Court which blocks the union's efforts …