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Dozens of health care workers and their supporters have established a blockade at a Chilliwack industrial park to prevent the shipment of hospital laundry and local jobs to Calgary. Click here Rally Poster for information on tonight's rally The contingent …

Public consultation needed before any decisions are made — HEU Fraser Valley health care workers today delivered an 8,200-signature petition opposing a private hospital in Abbotsford to local MLA John van Dongen. The petition calls on government to reject …

Printer Friendly Version Campbell Liberals will cut nearly $100 million from regional health care in 04/05 There’s been a heavy price paid by B.C. patients and health care workers for the Campbell Liberals’ forecast balanced budget and a further $98 …

Printer Friendly Version B.C.’s health minister must act now to stop a for-profit emergency room from opening its doors next week, says the Hospital Employees’ Union . According to media reports, the False Creek Surgical Centre – a for-profit medical …

Printer Friendly Version A lucrative contract for patient food services in Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast hospitals tying taxpayers to a $300 million payout over ten years has been awarded to a foreign corporation and will result in 1,300 staff — most …

Union demands that Premier Campbell cancel tenders and calls on Auditor General to investigate Telephone recordings and affidavits released by the B.C. Federation of Labour Friday detailing plans for deep wage cuts, mass firings of health care workers, …

B.C. unions representing more than 100,000 health care workers today launched legal action in B.C. Supreme Court alleging that the Campbell government’s contract-breaking legislation, Bill 29 , violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is …

Printer Friendly Version The BC Health Coalition joined other medicare advocacy groups from across Canada today to send a clear message to the nation’s first ministers: We need to fix health care, not privatize it. The Coalition says that after a decade …

Nurses and health care workers will be staging a lunch time protest parade today at UBC Hospital to highlight planned cuts at their facility. They’re trying to protect key services for patients by highlighting planned cuts to the hospital’s Discharge …

B.C.’s largest health care union has some friendly advice for the province’s doctors: Don’t trust Gordon Campbell’s word. The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) issued the warning after the premier and the B.C. Medical Association inked an agreement Tuesday …