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Printer Friendly Version Hospital and long-term care workers have voted 77 per cent in favour of a new two-year collective agreement with B.C.’s health employers. The agreement protects wages and extended health benefits. It also expands options for …

Printer Friendly Version Fifty-five care aides, activity aides and licensed practical nurses employed by subcontractor Just Care Ltd. and working at Eden Intermediate Care in Chilliwack have voted 89 per cent in favour of joining the Hospital Employees’ …

Joint release of BCGEU, CUPE, HEU and HSA On the eve of province-wide job action, unions representing 10,000 community social services workers have released a poll showing strong public support for their main bargaining goal of wage and benefit parity. …

HEU secretary-business manager Chris Allnutt discusses health care privatization with CKNW talk show host Rafe Mair. May 30, 2000 Download this photo (573 …

Health labour legislation introduced today by the Campbell Liberals is an attempt to guarantee massive long-term profits for multinational corporations at the expense of basic workers’ rights and living standards, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The …

Watchdog needed to monitor private health corporations Investors in a private company that’s been given the green light by the Campbell government to sell so-called medically unnecessary CAT scans to the public has strong financial ties to the B.C. …

The Campbell government has broken another contract, unions in the community social services sector charged today. “This government appears determined to take money out of the pockets of low-paid workers, and does not hesitate to break contracts to do …

B.C. Federation of Labour to file objection with the Competition Bureau The final act of betrayal on BC Rail has been played out, says B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair, with the Nov. 25 announcement of the pending sale of BC Rail to CN. …

Move will only promote instability The Liberal government should be promoting stability in health care rather than pushing through legislation that undermines collective bargaining and imposes contracts on health care workers says B.C.’s biggest health …

BCHC NEWS RELEASE A provincial Medicare advocacy group is calling on the auditor general to investigate a $1.37 million consulting tab racked up by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority for advice on how to cut services. And the BC Health Coalition is …