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Today, September 30, HEU will join with Canadians from coast to coast to recognize Orange Shirt Day: Every Child Matters. September 30 is a day to remember the atrocious treatment of more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children, who were …

  HEU’s fight for better senior’s care and secure, safe employment for health care workers is ramping up with a campaign aimed at securing higher staffing levels and measures to curb unbridled privatization in the long-term care sector. Under the theme …

On September 6, the B.C. Supreme Court will begin to hear Cambie Surgeries Corporation et al v. Medical Services Commission et al .   It’s an unprecedented charter challenge that could remove the laws that ensure Canadians access to health care is based …

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MoveUP will be holding information demonstrations on Wednesday and Thursday this week in support of striking workers employed by the BC Nurses. Please note that this will not prevent HEU members from entering their work sites.   Rather, the purpose of the …

HEU has partnered with GLISA International and the Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity to host a special Pride 2016 event, “Unions and the Pride Movement”, on Friday, July 29 at XY Nightclub (1216 Bute Street in the heart of Davie Village). …

In the last round of bargaining, the Community Bargaining Association (CBA) and the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) negotiated a “comparability increase” for certain classifications, impacting about 80 per cent of workers in the community …

On Tuesday, Canada Post issued 72-hour lockout notice to 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).   A lockout could threaten mail service across Canada as early as this Friday.   The Hospital Employees’ Union stands in solidarity …

Are you a young worker, 35 years of age or under, and a member of the Hospital Employees’ Union? If so, you are eligible to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. Simply fill out this information-gathering survey from the HEU Young Workers Committee by Thursday, …

CUPE NATIONAL – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is welcoming an agreement by the federal, provincial and territorial governments for a modest expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). While significantly less than the proposed doubling of …