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And in a province-wide radio ad campaign on-air starting December 27, HEU talks about the varied and essential roles its members play delivering care to British Columbians. Bargaining for 40,000 HEU members begins in early 2006, and the union says it's …

British Columbians support long-term solutions not short-term fixes to rural physician supply problem As more B.C. communities brace themselves for work withdrawals by physicians, new polling numbers released today by the Hospital Employees' Union …

More than 40,000 health care workers receive back pay today covering four years of overdue pay equity adjustments It’s a red letter day for more than 40,000 front-line health care workers in B.C.’s hospitals and long-term care facilities who are receiving …

B.C.’s largest health care union extended its best wishes today to the province’s new health minister, Corky Evans. The 46,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union says Evans is known as a strong advocate of public medicare and a supporter of better …

HEU condemns government cuts to public services Today, Hospital Employees' Union members at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, in solidarity with the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union, are dressing in black as visible condemnation of the …

Ailing hospital threatened with public/private partnership replacements Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union who work at the Gorge Road Hospital will be at the Capital Health Region meeting tonight to tell the board that public/private partnerships …

Printer Friendly Version The Provincial Executive of the Hospital Employees’ Union has decided not to reappoint secretary-business manager Chris Allnutt when his term expires at the union’s biennial convention this October. In the meantime, Allnutt is on …

Fair wage increase, parity for community caregivers, measures to modernize Medicare on unions’ priority list Contract talks for more than 60,000 health care workers from hospitals, long-term care facilities and community health services get underway in …

LPNs, Care Aide utilization part of progressive strategy The Hospital Employees’ Union is enthusiastically welcoming today’s announcement by the NDP of significant new funding for progressive health action plan initiatives designed to improve health care …

Noon rally features CUPE national president Judy Darcy and BC Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair Hundreds of health care workers will rally later today outside the Richmond headquarters of the Workers’ Compensation Board. They’re speaking out …