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Printer Friendly Version A publicly subsidized care home operator in Kamloops has told 140 ofits unionized employees that it will contract out their work just weeks after they reached a first contract. The company that owns Hamlets at Westsyde says that …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Unionsays that under Gordon Campbell’s premiership, B.C. has undergone massive privatization of health care services, unprecedented attacks on the rights ofhealth care workers, and growing instability and …

Printer Friendly Version Ten years ago, the Hospital Employees’ Union newspaper The Guardian published a wide-ranging interview with premier-in-waiting Gordon Campbell on his views about health care and other issues. It was in this interview that the …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital Employees’ Union members providing front-line care and support services at Stanford Place have given their bargaining committee an 84 per cent strike mandate. Union members want the facility’s owners to withdraw their …

Printer Friendly Version The province’s largest health care union says that the B.C.Liberals have missed an opportunity to provide relief to seniors and families from regressive fees and premiums and to improve health care services. Despite higher than …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is raising questions about discrepancies in the number of care hours that Park Place Seniors Living claims it provides to residents at Pine Grove Care Centre in Kamloops. Last weekend, Pine Grove staff received layoff notices …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is urging premier-designate Christy Clark to act on key recommendations made over a year ago by the province’s Ombudsperson that would assist families in making decisions about residential care for their loved ones. The …

Private contractor caught laundering soiled and bloodied birthing sheets in household washing machines A private contractor hired to clean Fraser Valley hospital laundry is putting patients and workers at risk by using household washing machines located …

The three largest health care contractors in the world and a local company that last year lost a cleaning contract at B.C. Children’s and Women’s Hospital are among seven companies that have been shortlisted by the Fraser Health Authority for lucrative …

Employees of the French multinational Sodexho who work at a private, for-profit seniors retirement complex in Port Coquitlam have voted to join the Hospital Employees’ Union to win stronger representation and better opportunities to improve wages and …