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  HEU’s fight for better senior’s care and secure, safe employment for health care workers is ramping up with a campaign aimed at securing higher staffing levels and measures to curb unbridled privatization in the long-term care sector. Under the theme …

On September 6, the B.C. Supreme Court will begin to hear Cambie Surgeries Corporation et al v. Medical Services Commission et al .   It’s an unprecedented charter challenge that could remove the laws that ensure Canadians access to health care is based …

Guardian: Summer 2016 …

As the union gears up for its 30 th Biennial Convention, held this fall at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, there’s an opportunity for HEU members to nominate their colleagues for special outstanding achievement awards. The HEU Social Justice Award First …

MoveUP will be holding information demonstrations on Wednesday and Thursday this week in support of striking workers employed by the BC Nurses. Please note that this will not prevent HEU members from entering their work sites.   Rather, the purpose of the …

HEU’s 30th biennial convention – under the theme Member voices. Union power. United for action. – will be held October 30 to November 4 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver. And this is a reminder that all delegate credentials, hotel accommodation …

HEU has partnered with GLISA International and the Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity to host a special Pride 2016 event, “Unions and the Pride Movement”, on Friday, July 29 at XY Nightclub (1216 Bute Street in the heart of Davie Village). …

In the last round of bargaining, the Community Bargaining Association (CBA) and the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) negotiated a “comparability increase” for certain classifications, impacting about 80 per cent of workers in the community …

Over this past weekend, Canada Post withdrew its lockout notice to its employees and both the corporation and CUPW are continuing negotiations. HEU locals can continue to use the postal service to submit credentials and other convention-related documents. …

On Tuesday, Canada Post issued 72-hour lockout notice to 50,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).   A lockout could threaten mail service across Canada as early as this Friday.   The Hospital Employees’ Union stands in solidarity …