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HEU calls on health authority to implement `code of conduct’ to prevent further abuses of workers’ rights by long-term care operators The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is urging the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority to implement a code of conduct for …

The Hospital Employees’ Union says today’s announcement by social development minister Mike Farnworth of $350 million in funding to expand the NDP’s day care strategy and significantly reduce child care costs for tens of thousands of parents is a positive …

Backgrounder (1/2) to March 27, 2008 news release Make hospital contractors pay family-supporting wages to cleaners and dietary workers - poll Printer-friendly version Printer-friendly version with release and both backgrounders Poll highlights Nine of …

HEU demands that Sodexho be fired The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says it’s alarmed to find that the foreign multinational firm Sodexho hired last week by B.C.’s Northern Health Authority to revamp delivery of hospital support services is at the …

Wage and benefit improvements reflect value of health workers in long-term care Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union working at Royal City Manor, a private for-profit long-term care facility in New Westminster, have voted 93 per cent in favour of a …

Costs for access will limit public scrutiny, warns HEU The Fraser Health Authority and the Ministry of Finance want more than $4,000 for key documents about two controversial health privatization initiatives that should be easily accessible to British …

Hospital to close while health authority spends more than a million dollars in cost-cutting advice Providence Healthcare today issued lay off notices to more than 450 health care workers in preparation for the shutdown of B.C.’s only acute care hospital …

Printer Friendly Version Huge pay increases for senior government bureaucrats are outrageous, disrespectful and out of touch, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. According to information quietly posted today on the B.C. government website, deputy …

HEU care providers join seniors to “just say no” to reckless closure of care facilities Residents and their families from the North Shore’s Capilano Care Centre and Cedarview Lodge and members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will visit long-term …

Victoria, school employers complicit in derailing talks, union charges The Hospital Employees' Union today condemned Premier Ujjal Dosanjh's back to work legislation that forced thousand of public school support staff to end their strike without a …