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Health care workers have voted 57 per cent against ratifying an agreement reached one month ago with health employers and the provincial government that would have traded significant concessions in exchange for limits on the impact of health care …

The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority board should launch both public hearings on its plans to privatize surgeries and an audit of a controversial North Shore cataract clinic when it meets in Richmond later this morning, says the BC Health Coalition. …

Front-line caregivers, seniors’ and community activists, and union leaders will rally for quality seniors’ care at Willingdon Park Hospital in Burnaby at 11:00 a.m. on May 14 in the wake of layoff notices issued to the facility’s 35 care aides late last …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will pay Canadian Forest Products Limited (Canfor) $500,000 to settle a legal action launched by the company in 2004. Canfor made a legal claim of damages for lost production and labour costs related …

Food and cleaning services headed for contracting out at Children’s and Women’s Hospital, B.C. Cancer Agency It’s eight days before Christmas and the Provincial Health Services Authority is getting ready to contract out food and cleaning services in …

The highest court in the land said today that it will hear arguments on whether the Gordon Campbell government’s contract-breaking law violates the equality and freedom of association rights of health care workers in B.C. On trial is Bill 29 - the 2002 …

HEU calls the move “provocative and destabilizing,” urges province to put the brakes on contracting out, rebuild trust with front-line health workers The B.C. Liberals are being urged to take dramatic steps to rebuild trust with front-line health care …

47 per cent give government “poor” health rating; 58 per cent oppose P3 hospitals; 60 per cent doubt health service quality can be maintained by private contractors The B.C. Liberals’ performance on health care is rated as poor by 47 per cent of British …

Justification for secrecy a “stunning disregard” for the law, says Justice B.C.’s secretive health authorities will now have to meet in public and only move behind closed doors in “limited circumstances” as a result of a B.C. Supreme Court ruling handed …

Community of Revelstoke wins one year extension on closure of long-term care facility Residents of Revelstoke’s Moberly Manor can unpack their suitcases — at least for a few more months — thanks to a high profile campaign waged against the long-term care …