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Printer Friendly Version Health care unions met today with representatives of the provincial government to deal with the repercussions of last June’s landmark Supreme Court decision that declared parts of a 2002 contract-stripping law unconstitutional. …

Printer Friendly Version More than six years after imposing a law that rewrote collective agreements, the BC Liberals have tabled a bill to implement last year’s historic Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down key provisions of Bill 29 – the …

Printer friendly version Unions representing 40,000 health care workers have reached a tentative settlement to implement last June’s landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling on Bill 29 . It includes expanded rights and protections plus a significant …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union has filed more than a dozen freedom of information (FOI) requests for documents related to the awarding of commercial contracts by B.C.’s health authorities worth an estimated $650 million. HEU filed …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital Employees’ Union members have voted 94 per cent in favour of labour adjustment measures and new rights that are part of a settlement to last year’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling striking down anti-labour legislation …

Printer Friendly Version The provincial government has an historic opportunity to address the growing crisis in seniors’ and patient care by reviewing its position on contracting out, say unions representing 40,000 health care workers in talks with …

Printer Friendly Version   HEU members are reeling from a surprise announcement by the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) that more than 250 regular care staff will lose their jobs over the summer with the planned closure of hundreds of long-term …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union is sounding the alarm about plans by multi-national corporation, Compass Group, to hire temporary foreign workers to clean operating rooms and feed patients in Vancouver Island hospitals by year’s …

Printer Friendly Version Health care workers employed by Abby Therapeutic Services at MSA Manor in Abbotsford are being laid off just two weeks after they joined a union and one week after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the contracting out …

Printer Friendly Version About 600 delegates representing 43,000 health and community social services workers will gather in Vancouver next week for the 26th biennial convention of the Hospital Employees' Union. The convention runs from Monday, November 3 …