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Health care workers and their families at care facilities in Parksville and Nanaimo were forced to spend the long weekend worrying about how they’d make ends meet after Friday afternoon announcements of impending wage cuts and the contracting out of their …

A nursing home operator in Nanaimo is bringing in the New Year by issuing lay-off notices to more than 150 local health care workers. Mississauga-based Chartwell Seniors’ Housing REIT – the operator of Malaspina Gardens – today gave six months’ notice of …

The owner of Acacia Ty Mawr Lodge intends to contract out all the jobs at the Shawnigan Lake seniors’ residential facility, putting more than 30 directly-employed care aides, recreation aides, licensed practical nurses, and dietary, kitchen and laundry …

[BURNABY] Unions representing 46,000 B.C. health care workers will sit down with employers and government to begin negotiations for a new collective agreement on Tuesday. The Hospital Employees’ Union will lead the 12-union Facilities Bargaining …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is demanding the immediate reinstatement of one of its members who has been suspended without pay for speaking on behalf of the union at a January 19 public meeting in Parksville on the state of seniors’ care.  Tina Irvine, a …

B.C.’s largest health care union says the establishment of a seniors’ advocate, announced today by the provincial health minister, is long overdue and will improve quality of care for seniors. But the Hospital Employees’ Union says it is unfortunate that …

Restoring federal funding and blocking Albertaís health care privatization legislation missing from plan, says HEU B.C.'s largest health care union says Health Minister Allan Rock's plan to save Medicare will fail unless his government deals with the …

Four out of five want government to study social, economic impacts of cuts before implementation Even before the Campbell government unveils deep health care cuts on Tuesday, a public opinion poll commissioned by the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) shows …

Pharmacare costs for seniors could quadruple, CUPE charges British Columbians will be forced to shell out $400 million to pay for added costs of the Campbell government’s new Pharmacare scheme, B.C. largest union charges, and that means drug bills will …

Public denied information, input as Victoria secretly decides fate of new health facility The PricewaterhouseCoopers study on privatization and other options for the new hospital promised to Abbotsford residents last spring is finished according to …