Act Now: to extend the Provincial Rural Retention Incentive
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Act Now: to extend the Provincial Rural Retention Incentive …
Last updated: Mar 13, 2026
Mission Creek Landing
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HEU is the best union for Mission Creek Landing workers! Hospital Employees' Union is B.C.'s largest health care union, representing more than 60,000 health care workers. I'm ready to join! I'd like to learn more! Remember: any communication you have with …
Last updated: Mar 13, 2026
New agreement brings wage increases to most Facilities members
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On Friday, an important agreement was reached with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) for additional wage increases for the majority of workers covered by the Facilities Collective Agreement. This is the first step in reversing the impact of …
Last updated: Dec 22, 2023
New rules for injured workers coming into effect January 1
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Injured workers and their employers will be required by the Workers Compensation Act to cooperate and communicate with each other and with WorksafeBC (WSBC) in order to get injured workers back to work that is safe for them to perform. Take a Webinar For …
Last updated: Jan 9, 2024
Getting seniors' care back on track
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The seniors’ care landscape has endured waves of change over the last 20 years, and care aide Jennifer Reitan has had a front row seat since 1997. That’s when she left her first job at Lions Gate Hospital and moved to Castlegar, a town of 8,000 set …
Last updated: Dec 22, 2023
Temp solutions in health care fall short
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As chronic short-staffing plagues B.C.’s health care system, more employers are relying on private temporary work agencies to fill vacancies. Although acute care hospitals are using agencies to fill nursing, care aide and allied health positions, the …
Last updated: Dec 22, 2023
Substance use policy at Interior Health still a concern
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Workplace incidents involving substance use are taken seriously in health care settings. But a punitive, one-size-fits-all policy applied by Interior Health Authority (IHA) has long been the subject of challenges by HEU. A policy grievance filed in 2014 …
Last updated: Dec 22, 2023
Long-term care workers at seven B.C. care homes ratify five-year agreement with employer
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[BURNABY] – On Friday, November 24, nearly 1,100 members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) who work in long-term care for Good Samaritan Canada renewed a collective agreement that prevents contracting out, provides enhanced benefits and shift …
Last updated: Nov 28, 2023
Transfer agreement reached to bring Protection Services back in-house
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The Hospital Employees’ Union recently negotiated a Labour Adjustment Transfer Agreement (LATA) with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) to bring hundreds of security officer positions back into the Facilities Bargaining Association (FBA). …
Last updated: Dec 12, 2025
Guardian: Fall 2023
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Guardian: Fall 2023 …
Last updated: Nov 7, 2023