Members urged to stay safe as wildfire crisis continues, air quality plummets
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As B.C.’s state of emergency remains in place due to the continuing wildfire crisis, the union is expressing its deep admiration and concern for all HEU members who are dealing with the impact of the fire activity, both personally and professionally. And …
Last updated: Aug 11, 2017
HEU welcomes new members from Corrections Services
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A recently negotiated Memorandum of Agreement between the union, the Facilities Bargaining Association, the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and the Health Employers Association will ensure health care workers in clerical and clinical support …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Members urged to support striking Pacific Blue Cross workers
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An ongoing labour dispute at Pacific Blue Cross has prompted CUPE Local 1816, the union representing locked out, unionized staff, to seek the support of HEU and its members. CUPE Local 1816 is asking HEU members enrolled in PBC’s benefit program to forgo …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU welcomes new premier’s picks to lead critical health files
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Premier John Horgan announced his choices for his government’s cabinet on Tuesday, picking two of B.C.’s strongest public health care advocates to head the new government’s health ministries. Horgan appointed Vancouver-Kingsway MLA Adrian Dix as the …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU in solidarity with Pacific Blue Cross staff
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The Hospital Employees’ Union is supporting members of CUPE Local 1816 in their collective bargaining dispute with Pacific Blue Cross (PBC) in Burnaby. Last month, PBC staff gave their bargaining committee a 98 per cent strike mandate. On July 7, PBC …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
HEU makes Red Cross donation to support Interior wildfire relief efforts
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The Hospital Employees’ Union is making an immediate $25,000 donation to the Canadian Red Cross to help in relief efforts for thousands of British Columbians impacted by the Interior wildfires. To date, about 14,000 residents in several communities have …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Urgent call out to health care workers in the Interior during wildfire evacuations
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The Interior Health Authority has asked the Hospital Employees’ Union for urgent assistance in finding available staff to provide health services during the current wildfire crisis. “We are needing care aides to work in Prince George and Merritt,” said …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
HEU commends members for supporting patients and residents during Interior wildfire crisis
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The Hospital Employees’ Union is closely monitoring the Interior wildfires that led the provincial government to issue a state of emergency over the weekend, and is expressing its appreciation to health care workers and emergency responders, who are …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Join a Pride festivity in your community
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In the coming months, British Columbians will be joining hundreds of others to celebrate Pride 2017. And we hope that HEU members will too. There’s much to celebrate! We’re pleased that the Canadian Senate has passed the long-delayed Bill C-16 in Ottawa. …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
BC Libs a little late to the game in throne speech
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In today’s throne speech – perhaps the last in their 16-year reign – the BC Liberal government tried to convince British Columbians that they would fix a health care system undermined by failed policies and underfunding. Claiming that they “heard more …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021