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Printer Friendly Version The provincial government's plan to turn over the financing and operation of expanded hospital facilities in the Okanagan to private corporations could include massive job losses, says the Hospital Employees' Union. A Request for …

Health care unions launch province-wide strike votes today Unions representing more than 60,000 health care workers are backing up their efforts to bargain wage equality for women by launching province-wide strike votes today — International Women’s Day. …

Printer Friendly Version About 250 dietary and cleaning staff employed by the British corporation Compass Group at three Vancouver health care facilities have been awarded a first collective agreement by a Labour Relations Board-appointed …

Printer Friendly Version The province’s largest health care union is demanding that the B.C. Liberal government release its controversial plans for health care that were foreshadowed in today’s Throne Speech. In its preview of a legislative agenda …

Printer Friendly Version The BC Health Coalition is calling on the provincial government to suspend plans to privatize health services during the course of its year-long Conversation on Health. Coalition spokesperson Leslie Dickout says a privatization …

Printer Friendly Version More than 700 dietary and cleaning workers employed by Compass Group at Vancouver Island Health Authority facilities are now members of the Hospital Employees’ Union. Ballots cast by workers in an October union representation vote …

Printer Friendly Version Compass Group employees working in the Provincial Health Services Authority have backed their union bargaining team’s effort to reach a first collective agreement with a 99 per cent strike mandate. The Hospital Employees’ Union …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital Employees’ Union members have reached a tentative agreement with the Philadelphia-based hospital contractor Aramark, covering about 1,000 cleaning staff employed in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. The tentative …

Printer Friendly Version Approximately 1,100 hospital housekeepers and dietary workers, employed in the Provincial Health Services and Vancouver Island Health authorities, strongly rejected Compass’ final offer in votes held throughout the past week. In …

Printer Friendly Version Vancouver - Today the BC Health Coalition (BCHC) announced the upcoming January 2009 launch of their Seniors’ Health Care campaign , Broken Promises. The campaign will be focused on the growing crisis in seniors’ health around …