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Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will be at the Labour Relations Board on Monday to set essential services levels for major hospitals like Royal Columbian, Surrey Memorial, Burnaby General and Chilliwack General after Sodexho …

Printer Friendly Version HEU files unfair labour practices complaint against giant U.K. corporation, alleging interference in vote The Hospital Employees’ Union is seeking a strike mandate from its members at a Victoria long-term care facility in an …

Common sense move benefits patients and taxpayers, says HEU Today’s announcement by the Interior Health Authority that it will not privatize laundry services is sound public policy that will benefit patients and taxpayers, says the Hospital Employees’ …

Hundreds of pink slips issued to health workers in Vancouver Hundreds of front-line health care workers were told today that they’d be replaced by a British corporation at flagship facilities serving the health needs of women, children and cancer …

Health care workers have voted 57 per cent against ratifying an agreement reached one month ago with health employers and the provincial government that would have traded significant concessions in exchange for limits on the impact of health care …

The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority board should launch both public hearings on its plans to privatize surgeries and an audit of a controversial North Shore cataract clinic when it meets in Richmond later this morning, says the BC Health Coalition. …

Front-line caregivers, seniors’ and community activists, and union leaders will rally for quality seniors’ care at Willingdon Park Hospital in Burnaby at 11:00 a.m. on May 14 in the wake of layoff notices issued to the facility’s 35 care aides late last …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will pay Canadian Forest Products Limited (Canfor) $500,000 to settle a legal action launched by the company in 2004. Canfor made a legal claim of damages for lost production and labour costs related …

Food and cleaning services headed for contracting out at Children’s and Women’s Hospital, B.C. Cancer Agency It’s eight days before Christmas and the Provincial Health Services Authority is getting ready to contract out food and cleaning services in …

The highest court in the land said today that it will hear arguments on whether the Gordon Campbell government’s contract-breaking law violates the equality and freedom of association rights of health care workers in B.C. On trial is Bill 29 - the 2002 …