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Three-year contract covers 46,000 hospital and long-term care workers Front-line health care workers from hospitals and long-term care facilities across B.C. have voted 62 per cent in favour of a new three-year contract reached with health employers early …

Health services and support workers have voted 84.9 per cent to ratify a new collective agreement that ends wage discrimination against 15,000 community-based health care workers. “This new contract is a significant victory for the thousands of community …

There’s little public support for a B.C. Medical Association recommendation that individuals pay for future long-term care and home care expenses through RRSP-style savings programs, according to polling numbers released today by the Hospital Employees’ …

Where: in front of Bear Creek Lodge              13646-94A Avenue              Surrey, B.C. When: June 19, noon - 1 p.m. The fifty-five HEU members have been negotiating for a new collective agreement since September 2000, six months after their contract …

Strengthening health care delivery requires a positive labour relations environment Legislation that would limit job actions by health care workers during labour negotiations would negatively impact the collective bargaining process and make constructive …

No measures planned for Wednesday, but unions say job action is set for Thursday In an important ruling that has huge consequences for bargaining for 46,000 health care workers, the B.C. Supreme Court this afternoon rejected a bid by health care employers …

Health care unions, B.C. Coalition of People with Disabilities call for provincial agency to oversee rehab services The Hospital Employees' Union, the B.C. Coalition of People with Disabilities and the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union have …

Campbell Liberals urged to pull back from P3 hospital schemes in wake of collapsed convention deal If the provincial government can’t put together a public-private partnership for a new convention centre, it should reconsider this approach to building …

Move raises new concerns about Opposition’s Medicare plan The Hospital Employees’ Union says there are a number of positive elements in the health care platform announced today by Liberal boss Gordon Campbell. But B.C.’s biggest health care union says …

Food safety violations, aggressive anti-union practices shocking, union wonders whether health authority checked references After digging up even more startling revelations about the business practices of multinational private health care provider …