Urgent call out to health care workers in the Interior during wildfire evacuations
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The Interior Health Authority has asked the Hospital Employees’ Union for urgent assistance in finding available staff to provide health services during the current wildfire crisis. “We are needing care aides to work in Prince George and Merritt,” said …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
HEU commends members for supporting patients and residents during Interior wildfire crisis
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The Hospital Employees’ Union is closely monitoring the Interior wildfires that led the provincial government to issue a state of emergency over the weekend, and is expressing its appreciation to health care workers and emergency responders, who are …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Join a Pride festivity in your community
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In the coming months, British Columbians will be joining hundreds of others to celebrate Pride 2017. And we hope that HEU members will too. There’s much to celebrate! We’re pleased that the Canadian Senate has passed the long-delayed Bill C-16 in Ottawa. …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
BC Libs a little late to the game in throne speech
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In today’s throne speech – perhaps the last in their 16-year reign – the BC Liberal government tried to convince British Columbians that they would fix a health care system undermined by failed policies and underfunding. Claiming that they “heard more …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU celebrates National Aboriginal Day on June 21
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For more than two decades, Canadians have officially come together on June 21 – National Aboriginal Day – to celebrate the unique heritage, traditions and contributions First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples bring to our country’s diverse culture. The …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Why our 2007 Supreme Court victory on Bill 29 still matters
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On that day, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision proclaiming for the first time in Canadian history that collective bargaining is a "constitutional right" protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . Here’s three reasons …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Seven members share stories from our latest conference
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Our 2017 equity conference, which took place this week, was an incredible event. And no one knows that better than the HEU members who were attending their first-ever union education event. HEU caught up with seven members to ask them what they learned …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU conference focuses on the struggle for equity and justice
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Under the theme – Rising Together: Roots, Struggle, Strength – more than 120 HEU members gathered in Vancouver this week for the union’s 2017 Equity Conference. The union’s secretary-business manager Jennifer Whiteside spoke of the need to address the …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU recognizes International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia
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Since 2005, HEU’s Pink Triangle Standing Committee has recognized the International Day Against Homophobia – May 17 – as part of its member and community outreach. May 17 is an opportunity for us to draw attention to the harmful impact of homophobia, and …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Let's put British Columbians first
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of attacks on public and social services over the past decade and a half under the BC Liberals. For nearly 16 years, the Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark governments have shown a complete disregard for working …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025