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Collective bargaining for 43,000 hospital and long-term care workers across B.C. has stalled over health employers’ refusal to put a hold on layoffs and contracting out during negotiations and their continued push for almost a quarter billion dollars in …

Printer Friendly Version Private hospital project may cost more than current estimates and 30-year agreement is unreasonably long, may result in extra costs to taxpayers — Lewis Auerbach The government should revise its plan to adopt a public-private …

Printer Friendly Version Unions representing more than 40,000 hospital and long-term care workers are asking B.C.’s health employers to take their current list of concession demands off the table and return with a more productive bargaining position …

Printer Friendly Version Chris Allnutt, secretary-business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, will be at St. Paul’s Hospital at 10:30 a.m. to comment on deputy minister Lee Doney’s factfinding efforts as health care workers begin the fourth day of …

Recent union agreement with competitor Aramark paves way to settlement, says HEU The BC Labour Relations Board has appointed mediator Vince Ready to help settle a 51-day-old strike of health care workers against Paris-based Sodexho. The move comes after …

Laid-off staff from the Sally Ann’s Sunset Lodge want talks to preserve resident care and save jobs Health care workers from the Salvation Army’s Sunset Lodge, a long-term care facility in Victoria, will rally today outside the Sally Ann’s Burnaby …

Food service workers win meeting with Providence Health Care CEO Carl Roy A group of St. Paul’s Hospital employees have ended a sit-in at the executive offices of Providence Health Care after the Catholic hospital group’s CEO Carl Roy agreed to a meeting …

Another U.S. bid — this time for B.C. hospital records — renews fears of Patriot Act Printer Friendly Version HEU asks for review of Vancouver Coastal plan to send records south The Hospital Employees’ Union is calling on the B.C. Privacy Commissioner to …

Printer Friendly Version Employees of the French global giant Sodexho who provide housekeeping services at Abbotsford’s MSA General Hospital have voted to join the Hospital Employees’ Union. The workers voted on April 28 but the ballot box was sealed …

Printer Friendly Version The Campbell Liberals are undermining their own nursing strategy by creating a double standard marked by shoddy and arbitrary treatment of licensed practical nurses, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The union is calling on …