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The Hospital Employees’ Union is raising questions about discrepancies in the number of care hours that Park Place Seniors Living claims it provides to residents at Pine Grove Care Centre in Kamloops. Last weekend, Pine Grove staff received layoff notices …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is urging premier-designate Christy Clark to act on key recommendations made over a year ago by the province’s Ombudsperson that would assist families in making decisions about residential care for their loved ones. The …

Private contractor caught laundering soiled and bloodied birthing sheets in household washing machines A private contractor hired to clean Fraser Valley hospital laundry is putting patients and workers at risk by using household washing machines located …

The three largest health care contractors in the world and a local company that last year lost a cleaning contract at B.C. Children’s and Women’s Hospital are among seven companies that have been shortlisted by the Fraser Health Authority for lucrative …

Employees of the French multinational Sodexho who work at a private, for-profit seniors retirement complex in Port Coquitlam have voted to join the Hospital Employees’ Union to win stronger representation and better opportunities to improve wages and …

Gorge Road Hospital’s health care workers are holding a rally tomorrow afternoon to protest the hospital’s closure, which organizers say will unnecessarily turn the lives of 800 people upside down. Speakers will talk about the effects of the closure on …

Sodexho has accepted mediator Vince Ready's recommendations for a first collective agreement with the Hospital Employees' Union. The contract terms apply to about 1400 dietary, cleaning and other support staff who work in contracted services at hospitals …

A consumer education campaign urging London Drugs' executives to challenge the B.C. Liberal government's Pharmacare changes goes province-wide this weekend. Volunteers with the B.C. Health Coalition will leaflet consumers on Saturday, January 11 at four …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is guardedly optimistic about a promise by MLA Gordon Hogg that his government will take action to fix food quality at Peace Arch Hospital, its extended-care facility and at other area hospitals. The Surrey-White Rock MLA …

Campaign to maintain quality care for facility residents a success The 23 care aides at Point Grey Private Hospital — members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) who waged a high profile public campaign to keep their jobs and maintain quality care for …