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Printer Friendly Version The B.C. government and its six health authorities today announced a new bureaucracy whose sweeping mandate includes centralizing a number of health services and may prompt a new wave of privatization. But even though these plans …

Eighty-two per cent of British Columbians support talks between government, health employers and health unions to find alternatives to the privatization and contracting out of health care support services, according to a McIntyre and Mustel poll released …

Printer Friendly Version HEU calls on new health services minister to support independent audit of hospital cleaning B.C.’s largest health care union is hoping the province’s new health services minister, Shirley Bond, will take government health care …

In a bid to promote the cost efficiency of public-private partnerships, the Campbell government agency responsible for such arrangements has implicated the Premier’s deputy minister Brenda Eaton by making a questionable claim of a huge public hospital …

Despite several overtures by the Hospital Employees’ Union to help Simon Fraser Lodge deal with its stated budget problems, the Prince George long-term care facility has opted to hire a private contractor and fire all its skilled dietary, housekeeping, …

Health care workers at Sunset Lodge are deeply disappointed that an offer to help the facility deal with its budget pressures has been dismissed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). During the past two weeks fired workers at the Victoria long-term …

Laid off hospital workers hold solidarity BBQ as mass firings near With hundreds of health care workers about to hit Vancouver’s unemployment lines, the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) has lodged unfair labour practice complaints at the Labour Relations …

Labour is making headlines across Canada and around the world. And you can read it all right here thanks to the Labour News Wire service of LabourStart. These headlines will take you away from our site click the "back" button of your browser to return to …

All three major unions at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have joined forces in an ongoing arbitration to bring security staff under the collective agreement between the facility and the Hospital Employees’ Union. “We are pleased to have the B.C. …

Health care workers and other medicare advocates in B.C. joined thousands of demonstrators across Canada today to demand immediate action by Ottawa to stop privatization of medicare. "We are on the brink of Canada's biggest medical emergency ever," Jim …