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The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) has reached a tentative agreement with the Community Social Services Employers’ Association (CSSEA). This agreement covers 17,000 workers in the sector, with nine unions, including about 1,500 …

Housekeepers working in the Teck Building at BC Women and Children’s Hospital (BCCW) are the latest group of privatized health care support workers confirmed to return to the public sector. In August 2021, the province’s health minister, Adrian Dix, …

The Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA), led by the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU), has secured two separate agreements to fund a new training program for 47 Facilities’ members to become qualified medical lab assistants (MLAs). The FBA reached the …

The unwinding of single-site restrictions is moving quickly, as the Provincial Health Officer orders restricting multi-site health care workers to a single site are expected to be lifted by December 31, 2022.  Health care workers with more than one job in …

The fight currently led by education workers in Ontario is a fight that all workers should support. This week, Doug Ford’s Ontario government enacted Bill 28, which unilaterally imposed contracts on more than 55,000 CUPE employees and made it illegal for …

More than 600 delegates elected 26 Provincial Executive (PE) members at HEU’s 33rd biennial convention in Vancouver held October 16-21. HEU president Barb Nederpel and financial secretary Betty Valenzuela were re-elected to their third terms in office.  …

In a briefing with HEU, Ministry of Health officials confirmed that wage levelling for seniors’ care workers will continue after December 31, 2022. This is an important commitment as the emergency order under which wage levelling was originally authorized …

Local governments, school boards and park boards have a big impact on you and your family. Local elections are coming up, and HEU members are encouraged to get out and vote. The people we elect make important decisions on everything from public education …

With the acceleration of price rises since the COVID pandemic, inflation has rightly become the top concern of working people in B.C. and elsewhere around the world. From traditional inflation rates of around 2% per year, inflation has surged as a result …

Hundreds of housekeepers and food service workers in Fraser Health public-private partnership (P3) facilities will return to the public sector as part of the tentative agreement reached between Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) and Health Employers’ …