OHS Webinars 2026
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This form is to register for any or all of our February 2026 OHS Webinars. Please click on the name of the workshop below for more course information. These are all unpaid, one-hour educational webinars, and are not eligible for union paid leave. …
Last updated: Dec 10, 2025
Retroactive wages, premiums and allowances for facilities members
Bargaining bulletin
Bargaining for a renewed collective agreement took place against the backdrop of a serious recruitment and retention crisis, and rising cost of living not seen in decades. That’s why securing an agreement that protects member pay cheques against …
Last updated: Mar 22, 2023
Tentative agreement reached for Community Social Services
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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 …
Last updated: Feb 7, 2023
New wage comparability working group
Bargaining bulletin
Today, one of the landmark provisions negotiated in the 2022-2025 Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA) collective agreement started moving ahead as a new working group began its work of reversing the BC Liberal’s 2004 rollbacks to Facilities members, …
Last updated: Mar 29, 2023
Last group of privatized housekeepers will return to the public sector
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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, …
Last updated: Jan 30, 2023
Funds support training of lab assistants
Bargaining bulletin
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 …
Last updated: Jan 19, 2023
Funds support training of lab assistants
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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 …
Last updated: Jan 19, 2023
Beyond Code White: Addressing violence in the health care workplace takes a team
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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 …
Last updated: Jan 8, 2024
Guardian: Winter 2022
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Guardian: Winter 2022 …
Last updated: Jan 3, 2023
Residents need more time and human connection
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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 …
Last updated: Feb 28, 2023