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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 Ministry of Health’s announcement to hire 320 in-house protection services officers to address violence in B.C. hospitals is welcome news for many workers and unions.  “Injuries from incidents of aggression or violence are the second largest reason …

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“I was an RN in Ethiopia. When I immigrated to Canada, I became a care aide. I’m currently an LPN and I’ve been an HEU member for 25 years. I work for a private facility where wage levelling with the Single Site Order during the pandemic was a huge thing …

“My mother was an HEU member and so were many women on my mom’s side of the family.  My mom worked as a food service worker at St Paul’s hospital during the contracting out.  I was five when she was fired and from a very young age I saw the impact of …

“I work at one of the first long-term care facility that had COVID in Canada. We were also one of the first long-term care facility to unionize during the pandemic. Those were really difficult times for us as workers. Because it was the first outbreak …

“For the past four and a half years, I have cared for seniors and people with disabilities. I work the morning shift as a care aide in long term care in Surrey and started doing this work to give back to my community. As care aides, we bring tools to this …

“I’ve been working in health care since 1985 as a care aide, and I am on the HEU’s Indigenous People’s committee.  Union activism has given me a voice. It helps me step into my power and feel supported by other people.  I grew up on a reserve on Vancouver …