Poverty-level wages key issue as health support workers begin job action against French corporation
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HEU secretary-business manager Judy Darcy available to media at 12:10 p.m. outside UBC Hospital Printer Friendly Version More than 1,100 health care support staff working at a number of BC health facilities will put their strike notice into effect at …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Auditor General urged to audit hospital cleaning in four health authorities
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Amidst growing concerns over deteriorating standards of hospital cleanliness, the BC Nurses’ Union and Hospital Employees’ Union are urging the BC Auditor General to carry out a thorough audit of housekeeping services in four health authorities. The call …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Sodexho cleaners at seven more FHA sites back fair wage bid with 98 per cent strike mandate
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Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will be at the Labour Relations Board on Monday to set essential services levels for major hospitals like Royal Columbian, Surrey Memorial, Burnaby General and Chilliwack General after Sodexho …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU seeks strike mandate from Victoria nursing home workers, urges Compass Group to bargain
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Printer Friendly Version HEU files unfair labour practices complaint against giant U.K. corporation, alleging interference in vote The Hospital Employees’ Union is seeking a strike mandate from its members at a Victoria long-term care facility in an …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Interior Health Authority keeps hospital laundry public
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Common sense move benefits patients and taxpayers, says HEU Today’s announcement by the Interior Health Authority that it will not privatize laundry services is sound public policy that will benefit patients and taxpayers, says the Hospital Employees’ …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health employers embark on major privatization spree
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Hundreds of pink slips issued to health workers in Vancouver Hundreds of front-line health care workers were told today that they’d be replaced by a British corporation at flagship facilities serving the health needs of women, children and cancer …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health care workers reject tentative framework agreement
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Health care workers have voted 57 per cent against ratifying an agreement reached one month ago with health employers and the provincial government that would have traded significant concessions in exchange for limits on the impact of health care …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
BCHC News Release: Health authority board urged to launch public hearings on private surgeries
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The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority board should launch both public hearings on its plans to privatize surgeries and an audit of a controversial North Shore cataract clinic when it meets in Richmond later this morning, says the BC Health Coalition. …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Pink-slipped care aides, supporters to rally for quality seniors’ care Wednesday at 11:00 A.M.
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Front-line caregivers, seniors’ and community activists, and union leaders will rally for quality seniors’ care at Willingdon Park Hospital in Burnaby at 11:00 a.m. on May 14 in the wake of layoff notices issued to the facility’s 35 care aides late last …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU reaches out-of-court settlement with Canfor
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Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will pay Canadian Forest Products Limited (Canfor) $500,000 to settle a legal action launched by the company in 2004. Canfor made a legal claim of damages for lost production and labour costs related …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021