$25 million severance package secured for health care workers
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Printer Friendly Version More than 1,300 health care workers who recently lost their jobs because of government privatization schemes will soon receive some financial compensation, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The payments come from a $25 million …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health care workers hold “day of political protest” Thursday
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MLA offices to be targeted in action designed to minimize impact on patients Health care workers will participate in a day of political protest against legislation that tears up legal collective agreements and clears the way for hospital closures, health …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Ad takes aim at B.C. Liberals’ broken promises
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Printer Friendly Version B.C. unions respond to Campbell Liberals’ multi-million dollar, feel-good ad campaign with a message of their own You can view it in the following formats: Quicktime Broadband Quicktime Dial-up: Realplayer Broadband Realplayer …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
700 privatized hospital cleaning workers join HEU
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Printer Friendly Version Nearly 700 employees of Aramark, a US-based corporation contracted to provide hospital cleaning services in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, have voted 84 per cent in favour of joining the Hospital Employees’ Union. The new …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s move to privatize security puts patients and workers at risk
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The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says today’s announcement by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and Providence Health Care, awarding a multi-million dollar contract to a private for-profit company, will put patients and health care workers at …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Construction costs for privately-financed Abbotsford hospital skyrocket
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Capital costs for a new Abbotsford hospital have skyrocketed by nearly 70 per cent since the B.C. Liberal government first announced their plans to privatize the financing and management of the health care facility, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Efficient regional hospital laundry next on privatization hit list
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One of Canada’s most efficient public hospital laundries is the next target in the Campbell government’s insatiable privatization agenda. Amid the controversy over yesterday’s announcement by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority that it would contract …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU and BCNU question value of health authority audit
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Printer Friendly Version Health Care unions say an audit released yesterday by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is of questionable value. And the unions are again calling for the BC Auditor General to step in and oversee an independent auditing …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Formal FOI appeal launched to force FHA to release laundry privatization deal
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First they turned to the courts to compel the Fraser Health Authority to open its board meetings to area residents. Now the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is appealing to B.C.’s freedom of information commissioner to force the FHA to make public the …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health authority one step closer to shutting down Gorge Road Hospital
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Approximately 300 members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will receive displacement notices before the end of the month, as the Vancouver Island Health Authority proceeds with its plan to shut down Gorge Road Hospital in Victoria. “The closure of …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021