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HEU asks privacy commissioner to force health authority to make public details of private laundry contract Forty-seven laundry workers at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver are being issued pink slips in the second round of privatization-related lay …

Care aides, LPNs and activity aides latest victims of provincial government’s Bill 29, says HEU For the second time in less than a month, a Lower Mainland seniors’ facility is using the provisions of the B.C. Liberals’ contract-breaking legislation to lay …

The official responsible for Taiwan’s efforts to control the spread of SARS has issued a stark warning about the dangers of contracting out hospital staff that B.C.’s health authorities should heed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). According to …

Willingdon Park care aides — the first health care workers delivering direct patient care to be contracted out in B.C. — are rallying against the privatization of seniors’ care at Burnaby’s Willingdon Park Hospital, June 14 at 11 a.m. The care aides, who …

A move by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority to privatize thousands of surgical procedures has staggering implications for public health care, says a medicare advocacy organization. And the B.C. Health Coalition is calling on Health Services Minister …

Printer Friendly Version A decision by B.C. Liberal MLAs to support a 29 per cent wage increase for themselves is unacceptable when they refuse to raise the minimum wage and continue to support low-wage policies in health care, says the Hospital …

HEU TV ads send a message about the impact of health care privatization on patients Privatization, it's the wrong answer for patients is the message in series of TV ads sponsored by the Hospital Employees' Union (CUPE)in 2002 and 2003. The ads target the …

Printer Friendly Version Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act reveal serious tensions between the Fraser Health Authority and the BC Liberals over whether the new Surrey Ambulatory Care Facility should be …

BC Health Coalition invites public to “report” on health cuts, calls for public hearings after health authority says $175 million in reductions are largely “administrative” Report cuts to justsayno@bchealthcoalition.ca or 1-877-600-1180 The Vancouver …

The operators of a seniors’ care facility in Nanaimo have cancelled their sub-contract for care services resulting in pink slips for more than 150 care aides, licensed practical nurses, recreation programmers and assisted living workers. Their union says …