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Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union have voted 69 per cent in favour of a first collective agreement with ARAMARK. The contract covers about 700 cleaning staff employed by the US-based corporation at more than 25 hospitals and care facilities in the …

Printer Friendly Version Retail food outlets staffed by members of the Hospital Employees’ Union employed by Sodexho will be closed in major hospitals across the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority as job action in the five-week-old strike escalates. Up …

Nursing staff at Queen’s Park long-term care facility in New Westminster demonstrate the use of a patient lifting device as part of a demonstration project to reduce workplace injuries. June 14, 2000 Download this photo (440 …

2004 The Liberals say their bringing out the best in B.C. But things are getting worse in health care. Contract rollbacks demanded by employers, longer wait lists, seniors going without care, and thousands of skilled workers—mostly women—losing their …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will opt for straight wage reductions rather than gamble on an arbitration process that would determine which benefits to sacrifice within the total compensation cuts imposed on health care workers by …

Printer Friendly Version Chris Allnutt, secretary-business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, will speak to media at 12:30 p.m. today at Vancouver General Hospital, 12th Avenue at Laurel. Allnutt will provide the union’s response to the B.C. …

Wendy Armstrong of the Consumers’ Association of Canada (Alberta Branch) tells a rally outside the Vancouver Club why health care privatization is not such a good idea, while HEU president Fred Muzin looks on. May 10, 2000 Download this photo (621 …

Printer Friendly Version A coalition of BC unions wants the Workers’ Compensation Board to mandate the province-wide use of safety needles. Each year 6,800 BC hospital workers are injured by unsafe needles and sharps. A coalition of BC unions says the …

Printer Friendly Version Care aides from Kiwanis Care Centre will be at the New Westminster council meeting tonight to talk about the dangerous trend of contracting out services to seniors in long-term care. What: New Westminster council meeting When: …

B.C. Health Coalition says Ministry of Health must determine whether private clinics result in longer than necessary wait lists at public hospitals A coalition of Medicare advocates wants the Ministry of Health to conduct an audit of surgery waiting lists …