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Printer Friendly Version Nearly 700 employees of Aramark, a US-based corporation contracted to provide hospital cleaning services in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, have voted 84 per cent in favour of joining the Hospital Employees’ Union. The new …

The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says today’s announcement by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and Providence Health Care, awarding a multi-million dollar contract to a private for-profit company, will put patients and health care workers at …

Capital costs for a new Abbotsford hospital have skyrocketed by nearly 70 per cent since the B.C. Liberal government first announced their plans to privatize the financing and management of the health care facility, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The …

One of Canada’s most efficient public hospital laundries is the next target in the Campbell government’s insatiable privatization agenda. Amid the controversy over yesterday’s announcement by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority that it would contract …

Printer Friendly Version Health Care unions say an audit released yesterday by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is of questionable value. And the unions are again calling for the BC Auditor General to step in and oversee an independent auditing …

First they turned to the courts to compel the Fraser Health Authority to open its board meetings to area residents. Now the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is appealing to B.C.’s freedom of information commissioner to force the FHA to make public the …

Approximately 300 members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will receive displacement notices before the end of the month, as the Vancouver Island Health Authority proceeds with its plan to shut down Gorge Road Hospital in Victoria. “The closure of …

Printer Friendly Version The Provincial Executive of the Hospital Employees’ Union announced today that it has hired Judy Darcy as its new secretary-business manager. Darcy — who led the Canadian Union of Public Employees as both its national president …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will pay Catalyst Paper (formerly NorskeCanada) $125,000 to settle a legal action launched by the company in 2004. Catalyst had made a legal claim of damages for lost production and labour costs …

The Campbell Liberals have cut more than 1,200 hospital beds since 2001 according to their own numbers , says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The information was released in response to the B.C. Liberal campaign’s so-called “real story on hospital …