Community Social Services strike actions continue in Victoria on Tuesday, October 30
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Rotating job actions are again underway this week in targeted community-based social services agencies, where workers are calling on government to provide the resources needed to improve their wages and working conditions. In Victoria, members of the …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
90 health care workers to be issued pink slips at veterans’ care facility
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More than 90 health care staff at George Derby Centre, the veterans’ residential care facility in Burnaby, will be out of work by the end of April, 2013 as the centre’s board of directors moves ahead with a controversial plan to contract out food and …
Last updated: Jul 20, 2021
Facility strike vote results to be released Saturday at 11 a.m.
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The multi-union Facilities Bargaining Association will release the results of province-wide strike votes on Saturday, November 3 at 11 a.m. Hospital Employees' Union secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson is the chief spokesperson for the FBA. She …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Hospital, long-term care and emergency health services workers vote 96 per cent in favour of strike action
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Health care workers have delivered a strong strike mandate to back their representatives in collective bargaining with B.C.'s health employers. Members of the 11-union Facilities Bargaining Association voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action during …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Tentative agreement reached for 46,000 B.C. health care workers in the facilities subsector
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Note to HEU members: This is the statement to the media released earlier today by the Facilities Bargaining Association. Details of the tentative agreement will be posted to the website, and a comprehensive report and a ratification vote schedule will be …
Last updated: Jul 20, 2021
George Derby Centre lay-off notices rescinded
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Workers at George Derby Centre, the veterans’ residential care facility in Burnaby, have had their lay-off notices rescinded after the George Derby Care Society board of directors decided to abandon plans to contract out health support services. …
Last updated: Jul 20, 2021
Closure of Okanagan's sole comprehensive addiction treatment centre would leave unacceptable gap
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The closure of Kelowna's Crossroads Treatment Centre would leave an unacceptable gap in detox and addiction treatment services in the Okanagan, says the Hospital Employees' Union. Crossroads announced today that it would be phasing out its detox and …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Rally to save Crossroads Treatment Centre in Kelowna
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On January 9, Crossroads Treatment Centre Society announced plans to phase out its detox and addiction counselling programs over the next three to six months despite high demand for those services. That move would leave the Okanagan without any …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
More than 800 community living workers in Victoria join province-wide strike actions on Thursday, January 31
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Community Living workers who support people with developmental disabilities at ten agencies in Victoria will be on strike Thursday, January 31. The striking workers - members of the Hospital Employees’ Union - are employed by: Becon Support Services, …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
HEU calls for audit of outsourced medical transcription services over privacy concerns
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The Hospital Employees’ Union is asking B.C.’s privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham to launch an investigation into outsourced medical transcription services in the Lower Mainland, citing concerns over the privacy and accuracy of patients’ medical …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021