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B.C.’s largest health care union says today’s provincial budget represents a lost opportunity to make strategic investments in seniors’ care and in the health of its citizens. The 43,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union says the budget confirms that the …

B.C. CEDAW Group/Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (Vancouver):  Canada and British Columbia are failing to deal with the human rights crisis of disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls says Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the B.C. …

The Hospital Employees’ Union says that B.C.’s annual hospital housekeeping audits fail to provide health care decision-makers and the public with a complete picture of the state of hospital cleanliness in this province. The union notes that Burnaby …

The Hospital Employees’ Union says a plan by Lower Mainland health authorities to contract out all medical transcription services threatens to put the confidentiality and accuracy of patient records at risk. On Thursday, health authorities issued a …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is raising the alarm about Lower Mainland health authorities’ plan to completely contract out in-house medical transcription even though costs for limited outsourcing of this service ballooned from $2.4 million to $6 million …

Polling released today by the Hospital Employees’ Union shows one out of three health care workers (33.6 per cent) report coming to work while experiencing cold or flu symptoms because of pressure from their boss not to access sick days. The poll raises …

Rotating job actions are again underway this week in targeted community-based social services agencies, where workers are calling on government to provide the resources needed to improve their wages and working conditions. In Victoria, members of the …

More than 90 health care staff at George Derby Centre, the veterans’ residential care facility in Burnaby, will be out of work by the end of April, 2013 as the centre’s board of directors moves ahead with a controversial plan to contract out food and …

The multi-union Facilities Bargaining  Association will release the results of province-wide strike votes on Saturday, November 3 at 11 a.m. Hospital Employees' Union secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson is the chief spokesperson for the FBA. She …

Health care workers have delivered a strong strike mandate to back their representatives in collective bargaining with B.C.'s health employers. Members of the 11-union Facilities Bargaining Association voted 96 per cent in favour of strike action during …