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“I'm a Speech and Hearing Assistant at the hospital. On the acute units, I work primarily with patients who've had a stroke or brain injury and do therapy to work on neurological conditions. I'm also a brain injury survivor, so I know what it's like not …

HEU’s campaign to bring thousands of contracted out housekeeping and dietary staff reached a new benchmark this month with nearly 6,000 letters sent to provincial legislators calling for an end to 20 years of privatization. With collective agreement …

As of January 1, 2022, the Municipal Pension Plan (MPP), which covers tens of thousands of HEU members, will adopt new changes to the Plan that improve equity and fairness. The MPP Board announced the adoption of the changes at the end of March. Changes …

The majority of HEU members are covered by public sector collective agreements, as negotiated by facilities, community health, and community social services bargaining associations. As part of the 2019-2022 contracts, tens of thousands of HEU members will …

Our big HEU family is grieving the unexpected loss this week of our Vancouver Island Regional Director Todd McAdam. Brother Todd was a cook and a union activist at the Columbus Residence – a long-term care home in South Vancouver – from where he was …

“I’ve been working in distribution for 19 years at the hospital.   What I do for my job is everything coming from our warehouse goes into the receiving area. And from the receiving area, we distribute to the hospital wards and areas like the OR and ICU.   …

“I’ve been an HEU member for 20 years in July. I work as a Rehabilitation Assistant on a surgical floor. My position is to support the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist, so a lot of it is organizing equipment, wheelchair maintenance, making …

“I tested positive for COVID back in March 2020, and was hospitalized. It was quite scary. I was in the high acuity unit for five or six days, and then I got moved down to a medical floor for a couple of days.   They almost intubated me, but luckily my …

“A lot of people don’t think we’re high-risk or frontline. I disagree with that because we do go into what they call the ‘hot zones’. If something needs to be taken care of, then we have no other choice but to go in there and fix it. I kind of get hurt …

"When COVID came so abruptly, there were many changes: staff changes, people leaving, people taking on other professions in clinical areas. Many housekeepers had left due to the fear of COVID. I told myself, ‘No one is going to do this, so I’m going to do …