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A flashy and expensive six-month government advertising campaign has failed to breath life into the B.C. Liberals’ efforts to get out the “facts” on health care, according to polling data released today by the Hospital Employees’ Union/CUPE. British …

60 per cent say Bill 29 should be repealed while 55 per cent oppose privatization of support services poll In the year that passed since the Gordon Campbell Liberals passed legislation tearing up health care collective agreements, a new poll shows that …

B.C.’s public health care system will remain on the critical list until the B.C. Liberal government announces its plans for an estimated $325 million in new federal health dollars, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). “As it stands, today’s status …

On the eve of the B.C. Liberal convention in Penticton this weekend, new polling data shows that British Columbians are overwhelmingly critical of the Campbell government’s health care agenda. A McIntyre and Mustel poll released today by the Hospital …

A news release from the B.C. CEDAW GROUP A coalition of 12 prominent B.C. women's organizations are calling on Victoria to reverse recent policy changes and cuts to social programmes that specifically harm women and girls in the wake of criticism from the …

More than 2,000 health care workers rallied in Vancouver Saturday afternoon to demand that the provincial government work with their union to avert massive lay-offs expected over the next few months. Hospital Employees’ Union members and supporters …

Burnaby care home delivers walking papers to 35 care aides, health employers “workshop” expanded contracting out of direct patient care A Burnaby long-term care facility is the first to contract out seniors’ personal care in a move the Hospital Employees’ …

Dietary, housekeeping staff on the street by mid-April Thirty-eight health workers at the Normanna Rest Home in Burnaby have received their layoff notices as the seniors’ residential care facility moves to contract out cook, dietary, and housekeeping jobs …

Health care workers from Vancouver Hospital will march to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority CEO Ida Goodreau’s office this afternoon to deliver the message that contracting out important hospital support services to private corporations will compromise …

joint release of BCGEU, CUPE, HEU and HSA Community social services workers resume job action this week, and will focus on delivering their message to provincial politicians that it's time to end wage and benefit discrimination for workers in this sector. …