Health care workers to rally at Children’s and Women’s
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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 …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU members table $21 million concessions package to avert privatization
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VIHA urged to protect quality services and jobs In a bid to protect quality services, save jobs and ward off further privatization in B.C.’s public health care system, unionized workers tabled a proposal with the Vancouver Island Health Authority today …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Cancelled talks a disappointing setback for common sense solutions — HEU
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Victoria, employers urged to reconsider in best interests of patients The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says it’s deeply disappointed that government and health employers have cancelled face-to-face talks set for Feb.14 aimed at finding alternatives to …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Care aides laid off days after LRB nails employer for unfair labour practices
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Vancouver nursing home operator had pressured workers to decertify or join `Christian’ union to keep their jobs Just days after the Labour Relations Board ruled that the operator of a Vancouver long-term care home had engaged in unfair labour practices, …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Job losses mount as privatization spree hits Lions Gate Hospital
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HEU asks privacy commissioner to force health authority to make public details of private laundry contract Forty-seven laundry workers at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver are being issued pink slips in the second round of privatization-related lay …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Coquitlam seniors’ facility sacks 59 caregivers
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Care aides, LPNs and activity aides latest victims of provincial government’s Bill 29, says HEU For the second time in less than a month, a Lower Mainland seniors’ facility is using the provisions of the B.C. Liberals’ contract-breaking legislation to lay …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
SARS spread aided by contracting out hospital cleaning and laundry, says head of Taiwan’s disease control agency
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The official responsible for Taiwan’s efforts to control the spread of SARS has issued a stark warning about the dangers of contracting out hospital staff that B.C.’s health authorities should heed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). According to …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Laid-off care aides, supporters to rally at 11 a.m. Saturday against privatizing seniors’ personal health care
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Willingdon Park care aides — the first health care workers delivering direct patient care to be contracted out in B.C. — are rallying against the privatization of seniors’ care at Burnaby’s Willingdon Park Hospital, June 14 at 11 a.m. The care aides, who …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
BCHC News Release: Stop privatization of surgeries and hold public hearings, health coalition tells government
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A move by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority to privatize thousands of surgical procedures has staggering implications for public health care, says a medicare advocacy organization. And the B.C. Health Coalition is calling on Health Services Minister …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
MLAs should reject 29 per cent wage increase - HEU
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Printer Friendly Version A decision by B.C. Liberal MLAs to support a 29 per cent wage increase for themselves is unacceptable when they refuse to raise the minimum wage and continue to support low-wage policies in health care, says the Hospital …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021