Filing a COVID claim
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If a worker contracts COVID-19 through work, they have the right to apply to WorkSafeBC (Workers’ Compensation Board or WCB) for wage and medical benefits. In October this year, WCB added COVID-19 to the list of illnesses and injuries included in …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Out of the Dark
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About 20,000 HEU members work in long-term care. About 15,000 of those are care aides, and others are housekeepers, dietary aides, licensed practical nurses, activity aides, registered nurses, and numerous other job classifications. All of them come in …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Season’s greetings
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On behalf of the Provincial Executive, we’d like to take this opportunity to send season’s greetings to you and the more than 50,000 members who are the Hospital Employees’ Union. It’s been an unprecedented year, and through it all HEU members have been …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health and safety are top concerns
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We’re in the midst of one of the most challenging times for our public health care system. When I talk to HEU members, the conversations quickly turn to what they’re experiencing on the front lines during this pandemic. And let me share with you that what …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Staying safely connected through innovative ways
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A popular buzzword in 2020 is “pivot” – meaning our ability to be flexible when regularly called upon to change our course of action during this global pandemic. And nowhere is that flexibility more evident than in our health care system. HEU members have …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Solidarity with Farmers in India
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The Hospital Employees’ Union stands in solidarity with farmers in India as they protest three controversial bills passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. These laws would deregulate the farming industry in favour of large multinational …
Last updated: Jun 22, 2021
HEU responds to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s report on racism targeted at Indigenous people in B.C.’s health care system
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Read the report Mike Old, Interim Secretary-Business Manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, issued the following statement today: “The report released today shows widespread racism, prejudice and discrimination across the health care system directed …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Government issues province-wide policy for mask use in health facilities
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The Ministry of Health is requiring all visitors and out-patients to wear medical-grade masks when visiting a health care facility including hospitals, long-term care facilities and assisted living. While the November 5 policy doesn’t change mask …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Contracted support service workers to elect bargaining committee in November/December
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Contracted Support Service workers (CSSW) who work in housekeeping, dietary and retail services in health facilities are preparing for their next round of bargaining with private contractors. Collective agreements expired in September 2020 for more than …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU’s stands in solidarity with Alberta health care workers
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This week, HEU sent a letter the Alberta Federation of Labour, expressing our support and solidarity to Alberta health care workers during this time. HEU, which represents more than 50,000 health care workers in British Columbia, stands in solidarity with …
Last updated: Jun 22, 2021