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After an eight-year wait, nearly 40,000 front-line health care workers will finally receive wage adjustments and retroactive payments related to a major pay equity settlement awarded last fall by a third party arbitrator.  Last week, health employers …

Employees resoundingly reject employer’s proposed freeze on wages and working conditions Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union working at Royal City Manor, a long-term care facility in New Westminster, have voted 100 per cent in favour of job action to …

Nurses, ambulance paramedics, health care workers at increased risk; municipalities can expect more emergency calls to local police and fire departments When: 8:30 am Wednesday, November 27, 2002 Where: Room 10 (upstairs) Vancouver Convention and …

Victoria Chinatown Care Centre residents told they must relocate Care providers from the Victoria Chinatown Care Centre will appeal to the board of the Capital Health Region to reconsider options that would allow five residents recently reassessed as …

Health minister must ban extra-billing by surgeons in private clinics, says HEU B.C.’s largest health care union is calling on health minister Mike Farnworth to enforce the laws prohibiting private clinics from charging patients for procedures covered by …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is alarmed at yesterday’s stabbing of abortion provider Dr. Garson Romalis as he arrived at work, but says that it is not just the doctors who are in peril. “We are shocked and dismayed at the attack suffered by Dr. Romalis …

Angered by employer demands for rollbacks and a lack of a monetary offer for community caregivers, unions representing 60,000 health care workers in communities across B.C. are urging their members to vote yes in strike votes set to kickoff on March 8, …

B.C.’s largest health care union says a decision issued by the Labour Relations Board this afternoon that rules that strike notice was not properly served yesterday undermines the collective bargaining rights of union members. On Thursday, the Hospital …

Instead, government should respond to British Columbians’ top priority — protecting, modernizing public Medicare Premier Ujjal Dosanjh’s balanced budget law introduced today in the legislature is sadly misguided, and could pose serious problems for future …

The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) today filed a counter suit in B.C. Supreme Court against A&A Services Co., alleging that the Vancouver-based cleaning company both defamed the union and interfered with its economic and contractual relations. A&A …