Site Search

Private company’s recent lacklustre performance in Chilliwack no deterrent The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) has learned that the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority has awarded a lucrative laundry contract to U.S.-controlled K-Bro Linen Systems despite …

Kelowna General union members vote 80 per cent to back Medicare defense plan, while votes upcoming in other key communities The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is highly critical of a move by the Interior Health Authority to block public access to the …

Printer Friendly Version The provincial government should reverse its plan to exclude health care providers from the 16 regional public forums that are the centerpiece of the $10-million "Conversation on Health." Health union leaders told Health Minister …

joint release of BCGEU, CUPE, HEU and HSA Ten thousand workers in the community social services sector will commence a province-wide strike on International Women's Day, March 8, in an effort to end wage and benefit discrimination for women in the sector. …

Printer Friendly Version The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments tomorrow on whether a B.C. law enacted in 2002 violates the constitutionally-protected Charter rights of health care and community social services workers. At issue is Bill 29 , The …

Printer Friendly Version Kamloops—Interior residents deserve a moratorium on further privatization in Interior Health Authority (IHA) until there is an independent audit of long-term care services for Interior seniors, said B.C. Federation of Labour …

Printer Friendly Version Note to HEU members: This is the statement released to the media earlier this morning by the Facilities Bargaining Association. You will find more details of the tentative agreement posted to the website over the next couple of …

Health care workers brace for impact of physicians’ walk-out Williams Lake activists from the Hospital Employees’ Union will hold a special meeting tonight to put together a solid action plan to address the crisis facing health care delivery that goes …

Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union from MSA General Hospital in Abbotsford will attend tonight’s meeting of the Fraser Valley Health Board to speak against proposed plans to replace the ageing hospital with a health facility financed, owned and …

The Campbell Liberals’ first budget will leave scars on the social fabric of British Columbia that will take decades to heal, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). “The finance minister has made it official,” says HEU president Fred Muzin. “B.C. will …