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With bid support dipping, majority of British Columbians say they’d feel more comfortable backing games if Victoria stopped health, education cuts New polling data released today shows that backing for the Vancouver/Whistler Winter Olympic bid is dipping, …

63 % say wages should reflect role in ensuring patient safety British Columbians aren’t buying the argument that hospital laundry and cleaning staff should be paid the same as those doing similar sounding jobs in hotels, according to a poll released today …

Fired workers to leaflet family meeting at Sunset Lodge, Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. The Salvation Army has rejected an overture from fired workers at a Victoria long-term care facility it operates that would help balance the books, says the Hospital Employees’ …

More than 800 skilled, experienced staff to lose jobs Today’s announcement by the Fraser Health Authority that it will contract out critical cleaning services to the French corporation Sodexho is bad news for patients and for the more than 800 front-line …

Health care workers will vote on an agreement, struck late Wednesday between their unions and the Northern Health Authority, that exchanges contract concessions for protections against contracting out. If ratified during votes scheduled over the next two …

Health care workers are demanding that the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority come clean with the public on the impact of $175 million in cuts it plans to make to health services in the region. The VCHA redesign and budget management plan for 2003/04 to …

Printer Friendly Version Health employers won’t budge from demands for massive contract concessions, won’t put layoffs on hold during talks Health unions are questioning why B.C.’s health employers requested the services of a Labour Relations Board …

Printer Friendly Version Choice is unanimous for housekeepers at Eagle Ridge, Mission Memorial The Hospital Employees’ Union has scored two more organizing victories as employees of the French global giant Sodexho who provide housekeeping services at two …

Health coalition says minister of intermediate, long-term and home care should resign Citing information contained in a secret government report and new figures that show that the B.C. Liberals’ seniors’ care strategy is in serious trouble, a coalition of …

On Thursday at 10 a.m., the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will release a study by Simon Fraser University economist Marjorie Griffin Cohen on the effects of health privatization on women workers and their wages. March 8 is International Women’s Day. …