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B.C.’s largest health care union is calling for more paid sick leave and an end to sub-contracting of staff in seniors’ care homes in response to B.C. Seniors’ Advocate Isobel Mackenzie’s investigation into some of the biggest COVID-19 outbreaks in this …

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has provided new timelines under which staff in the long-term care and assisted living sector can receive their vaccine and continue working at their site. Workers who do not receive two doses of an approved …

This year, for the first time, September 30th will be marked as a statutory holiday - the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation . For many years, this day has been commemorated as Orange Shirt Day, based on the story of residential school survivor …

HEU and the Vancouver Island Health Authority are implementing a plan to bring hundreds of contracted out housekeeping and dietary staff back as direct employees at a number of its Victoria-area health care facilities. It represents the first of 21 …

“I work as a food service worker at a hospital. For the past 10 years, I’ve worked for a private company. We are so happy to hear the news that we are coming back in-house. We have been waiting a long time for this! My shift starts at 5:30 in the morning …

HEU members and dependents covered by the Facilities Collective Agreement (FCA) will see a number of significant improvements to their extended health and dental plan effective January 1, 2022: Deductible Eliminated: Today your plan requires you to pay a …

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Monday that the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for long-term care and assisted living workers will be extended to the rest of health care effective October 26. Health care workers in a wide array of …

There are four ways you can vote this year. In person on Election Day Monday, September 20 In person at an Advance Voting Location from September 10 to 13 In person at an Elections Office, until 6 pm September 14 By mail, if you request a mail-in ballot …

B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer (PHO) Dr. Bonnie Henry has issued a written order confirming the requirement that workers in long-term care and assisted living to be vaccinated against COVID-19. It comes three weeks after she announced the action earlier …

To: All HEU Locals Re:  HEU Staff Union (PEA-HESU) job action The PEA-HESU representing HEU’s unionized staff served strike notice on HEU earlier this week. HEU has had productive negotiations with PEA-HESU over the last few months but we have not …