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In a bid to promote the cost efficiency of public-private partnerships, the Campbell government agency responsible for such arrangements has implicated the Premier’s deputy minister Brenda Eaton by making a questionable claim of a huge public hospital …

Despite several overtures by the Hospital Employees’ Union to help Simon Fraser Lodge deal with its stated budget problems, the Prince George long-term care facility has opted to hire a private contractor and fire all its skilled dietary, housekeeping, …

Health care workers at Sunset Lodge are deeply disappointed that an offer to help the facility deal with its budget pressures has been dismissed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). During the past two weeks fired workers at the Victoria long-term …

Laid off hospital workers hold solidarity BBQ as mass firings near With hundreds of health care workers about to hit Vancouver’s unemployment lines, the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) has lodged unfair labour practice complaints at the Labour Relations …

Labour is making headlines across Canada and around the world. And you can read it all right here thanks to the Labour News Wire service of LabourStart. These headlines will take you away from our site click the "back" button of your browser to return to …

All three major unions at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have joined forces in an ongoing arbitration to bring security staff under the collective agreement between the facility and the Hospital Employees’ Union. “We are pleased to have the B.C. …

Health care workers and other medicare advocates in B.C. joined thousands of demonstrators across Canada today to demand immediate action by Ottawa to stop privatization of medicare. "We are on the brink of Canada's biggest medical emergency ever," Jim …

HEU pleased with government’s broad-based approach The Hospital Employees’ Union says today’s announcement by the provincial government of 89 new training spaces for Licenced Practical Nurses (LPNs) is a positive move that will help ease B.C.’s chronic …

Striking health care workers wonder how employer can afford it The employer at Imperial Place in Surrey seems to have resorted to bullying tactics — both of its striking workers and of the residents in the private, for-profit independent living facility. …

HEU questions whether health authorities exercised due diligence in privatizing services, calls for government investigation Foreign companies contracted to clean operating rooms, intensive care units and patient wards at major hospitals are paying wages …