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Printer Friendly Version Health unions representing 43,000 workers in hospitals and long-term care facilities across B.C. will hold a news conference to announce their next move in their efforts to reach a new collective agreement. What: News conference …

Printer Friendly Version Employees of a French corporation that’s under contract to provide patient food services in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority have voted 90 per cent in favour of joining the Hospital Employees’ Union. As a result, nearly 800 …

The Interior Health Authority is disciplining employees who voice their concerns in public about the closure and privatization of seniors care facilities, and has threatened termination if there are any “further infractions.” In Williams Lake the Hospital …

Front-line health care workers at Children’s and Women’s Hospital will raise the alarm about the planned lay off of thousands of women on health care’s front lines at a rally to be held at noon today at the corner of 29th Avenue and Oak Street in …

By forestalling inevitable release of contract details, Fraser Health Authority not acting in public interest — HEU B.C.’s health services minister Colin Hansen must force the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) to release details of contracts its signed with …

An ambulance carrying an important message about the future of Medicare begins a nine-day tour of B.C. today and Duncan is one of the first stops. The ambulance is staffed by health care workers and sports a visually striking paint job calling attention …

The B.C. government and its six health authorities can’t sidestep their legal responsibility to keep patients safe, and would still be held liable if patients are in any way harmed by poor infection control and cleaning practices at hospitals where health …

WHERE: Grassy knoll in front of Children’s Hospital on Oak Street WHEN: March 14, 11 am - 1 pm SPEAKER: HEU secretary-business manager Chris Allnutt to speak at 11:30 am REFRESHMENTS While health care union negotiators and employers caucus through the …

In the wake of a B.C. Supreme Court decision ordering health authorities to open their meetings to the public, the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is encouraging the Northern Health Authority to end its behind-closed-doors decision-making practice and …

It’s the largest layoff yet in Liberals’ contracting out scheme Today’s announcement by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority that 950 hospital housekeepers will lose their jobs, and the important cleaning and infection control services they perform will …