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Notes for Chris Allnutt, secretary-business manager CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Before the last election, Gordon Campbell sold B.C. taxpayers and front-line health care workers a bill of goods. He said he'd protect health care. He said health care workers …

Printer Friendly Version Health unions are demanding that health employers back up claims that they can’t put privatization and layoffs on hold while collective bargaining takes place. Contract talks for 43,000 hospital and long-term care workers have …

Reducing injury rates in hospitals and long-term care facilities will be the main focus when health care contract talks covering 43,000 workers resume in Vancouver today. Health care unions are proposing an early renewal of funding for the jointly …

Union says action shows “lack of respect” for collective bargaining The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority has announced plans to privatize its massive warehouse and distribution operations and put another 200 employees out of work just as collective …

About two dozen St. Paul’s Hospital employees are staging a sit-in at this hour outside the office of Providence Health Care CEO Carl Roy to protest plans to lay off 275 food service workers. Roy’s office is located at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown …

Year-end survey provides bleak snapshot of conditions on health care’s front lines Nine out of ten workers agree that the way things are going in B.C.’s health care system, mistakes will be made that will harm or kill patients. That’s just one of the …

Hospital future in jeopardy, as health board ignores widespread public opposition The Hospital Employees’ Union says the Simon Fraser Health Board’s announced plan to close Burnaby Hospital’s 205-bed, extended care Cascade Residence in the face of …

Printer Friendly Version Government appointees to B.C.’s six health authority boards pocketed $1,002,572 in directors’ fees last year, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. Financial documents, obtained by the union under the provisions of the Financial …

Today’s throne speech is a frank admission by the B.C. Liberal government that nearly three years into their mandate they have failed to deliver on health care, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. Even though it’s the largest program area of government …

Printer Friendly Version Health care workers are holding protest lines around B.C. health care facilities in response to Bill 37 — legislation that imposed deep wage cuts while continuing to leave health authorities a free hand to contract out work and …