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Brandon Houston grew up in a union household and credits his mother, an HEU care aide and activist, with providing a strong moral compass. “Being a social justice union was kind of put into the vernacular pretty early on in our family – how we feel …

Although many people think of health care being delivered in hospitals and care homes, almost 40,000 health care workers in B.C. work in community settings.  They work in group homes and day centres, addiction services and transition houses, and other …

HEU members looking to change their career path are among thousands of care aides graduating through the province’s new Health Career Access Program (HCAP). Hope Wason was a hospital housekeeper for two years, before enrolling in the program last year. …

Bargaining is underway for a renewed collective agreement for HEU members in the facilities subsector – more than two-thirds of the union’s membership. Staffing levels, health and safety, and wages are always priority issues, but they’ve been made even …

Against the backdrop of headline-grabbing staff shortages at Royal Inland Hospital and other health care facilities, health employers returned to the facilities bargaining table this week with disappointing responses to union proposals addressing the …

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"For the majority of the pandemic, I was basically doing two people’s worth of work on my own. I ended up taking four months of mental health time with an unpaid medical leave in order to recover from the workload.  My job is predominantly scheduling, …

“I do logistic work and am an area supply attendant for emergency and medical imaging. Basically, I order their supplies, bring them in, and organize things to where they need to go. I’ve been here for eight years. The most rewarding part of my job is …

“I'm a nurse's aide and I help out in the operating room. We got the news about the pandemic before Dr. Henry said there was going to be a lockdown, and we had lots of new protocols. During the first wave we had to reorient every day we went to work. The …

[Burnaby, B.C.] – The Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) is celebrating the return of 397 privatized workers back under Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) and Provincial Health Services Agency (PHSA) after nearly 20 years of working for private …