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“Budget 2024 is making record investments in public health care by supporting families and workers in building a system that will meet the needs of a growing and aging population. We know there is more to do to rebuild our health care system, and this …

Black people have been part of Canada since the early-1600s before slavery was abolished in 1834. Canada’s economy was built by enslaved Black people and it benefitted by the unpaid and low-paid labour of Black people in all aspects of society, including …

As the war in Gaza rages on for more than 100 days, the Hospital Employees' Union remains alarmed at the number of deaths and scale of suffering in the region.  HEU, along with our national union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, has signed onto …

On Friday, an important agreement was reached with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) for additional wage increases for the majority of workers covered by the Facilities Collective Agreement. This is the first step in reversing the impact of …

Injured workers and their employers will be required by the Workers Compensation Act to cooperate and communicate with each other and with WorksafeBC (WSBC) in order to get injured workers back to work that is safe for them to perform.  Take a Webinar For …

The seniors’ care landscape has endured waves of change over the last 20 years, and care aide Jennifer Reitan has had a front row seat since 1997.   That’s when she left her first job at Lions Gate Hospital and moved to Castlegar, a town of 8,000 set …

As chronic short-staffing plagues B.C.’s health care system, more employers are relying on private temporary work agencies to fill vacancies. Although acute care hospitals are using agencies to fill nursing, care aide and allied health positions, the …

Workplace incidents involving substance use are taken seriously in health care settings.  But a punitive, one-size-fits-all policy applied by Interior Health Authority (IHA) has long been the subject of challenges by HEU. A policy grievance filed in 2014 …

[BURNABY] – On Friday, November 24, nearly 1,100 members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) who work in long-term care for Good Samaritan Canada renewed a collective agreement that prevents contracting out, provides enhanced benefits and shift …