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Media Release issued by: Labour Environmental Alliance Better Environmentally Sound Transportation David Suzuki Foundation The Fraser Health Authority should reverse its decision to truck dirty laundry from four Fraser Valley hospitals to Calgary for …

Save Capilano Care Centre Rally — today at 11:30 a.m., Park Royal Mall Community outrage over the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s proposed closure of the 217-bed Capilano Care Centre is the reason that residents’ families, their caregivers and …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is demanding that the Interior Health Authority audit the finances of the Pine Grove Care Centre in Kamloops to determine how their public funding is being split between front-line care and company profits. The union is …

Printer Friendly Version Health care workers, especially in long-term carefacilities, frequently identify inadequate staffing levels and heavy workloads as primary reasons for not being able to deliver the proper care and attention to residents – a …

Printer Friendly Version Delegates to the 27th biennial convention of the Hospital Employees’ Union have re-elected Ken Robinson as president of the 43,000-member union. Robinson,a diet technician at Kelowna General Hospital and HEU member for 20 years, …

Printer Friendly Version A publicly subsidized care home operator in Kamloops has told 140 ofits unionized employees that it will contract out their work just weeks after they reached a first contract. The company that owns Hamlets at Westsyde says that …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Unionsays that under Gordon Campbell’s premiership, B.C. has undergone massive privatization of health care services, unprecedented attacks on the rights ofhealth care workers, and growing instability and …

Printer Friendly Version Ten years ago, the Hospital Employees’ Union newspaper The Guardian published a wide-ranging interview with premier-in-waiting Gordon Campbell on his views about health care and other issues. It was in this interview that the …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital Employees’ Union members providing front-line care and support services at Stanford Place have given their bargaining committee an 84 per cent strike mandate. Union members want the facility’s owners to withdraw their …

Printer Friendly Version The province’s largest health care union says that the B.C.Liberals have missed an opportunity to provide relief to seniors and families from regressive fees and premiums and to improve health care services. Despite higher than …