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Printer Friendly Version Today’s budget update confirms that health authorities will be forced to proceed with more than $300 million in cuts to surgeries, seniors’ programs, diagnostic and pharmacy services, residential care, health records, mental …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union is urging the provincial government to take concrete steps that demonstrate it hasn’t already determined the outcome of its year-long “Conversation on Health Care.” A poll released by the union at its …

Printer Friendly Version The Campbell Liberals’ 2009 budget means B.C.’s health authorities will continue to struggle to provide health services to communities across the province. HEU secretary-business manager Judy Darcy says that if British Columbians …

Printer Friendly Version Health authorities will be hard-pressed to deliver services to the public at current levels despite increases to health funding, says B.C.’s largest health care union. Today’s health ministry budget increases regional …

Printer Friendly Version Seven of British Columbia’s largest unions, along with the B.C. Federation of Labour, have decided to launch a legal challenge against Bill 42. The unions have retained lawyers Joseph Arvay, Q.C. and Leo McGrady, Q.C. to handle …

Printer Friendly Version The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sections of Bill 29, the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act, violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In a  groundbreaking ruling extending the freedom of …

Printer Friendly Version Today, lawyers representing seven B.C. unions filed documents and launched a legal challenge against Bill 42 . Bill 42 originally attempted to restrict third party election advertising for five full months before the next …

Printer Friendly Version Delegates to the 26th biennial convention of the Hospital Employees’ Union have elected Ken Robinson as the new president of the 43,000-member union. Robinson is a diet technician at Kelowna General Hospital and has been an HEU …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital cleaners and food service workers, employed by multinational corporations – Sodexo, Aramark and Compass – will take their campaign for living wages to the streets of downtown Vancouver this Sunday. Wearing T-shirts that …

More than 90 per cent of British Columbians say B.C.’s health authorities should require corporate cleaning and food service contractors to pay family-supporting wages to their workers, according to polling numbers released today by the Hospital …