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Printer Friendly Version By a margin of 69 per cent, British Columbians believe that contract rollbacks for health care workers will further erode the quality of care and result in fewer services to the public, according to a new Mustel Group/Hospital …

Printer Friendly Version   Living wage policies are an essential tool to address the shocking gap – revealed today in a Statistics Canada report – between the wages of new-immigrant and Canadian-born workers, says the Hospital Employees’ Union.   The HEU …

Printer Friendly Version B.C.’s largest health care union says it’s time for government to act on proven public solutions that will improve health care and protect British Columbians from growing pressures to pay out-of-pocket for their health care needs. …

Printer Friendly Version B.C.’s largest health care union says that patients and seniors would benefit from comprehensive whistleblower legislation that protects health care workers from employer reprisals when they expose harmful or illegal practices. …

Printer Friendly Version More than 7,000 health care workers who lost their jobs as a result of the B.C. Liberal government’s Bill 29 will receive compensation cheques before Christmas. The payments result from negotiations between health unions and …

Printer Friendly Version Four hundred and fifty care aides who provide personal care for seniors at three taxpayer-funded facilities in the Lower Mainland have been handed termination notices in the largest mass firing in health care since the Campbell …

Printer Friendly Version After nearly a year of bargaining, more than 700 HEU members on Vancouver Island have a first collective agreement with their British employer, Compass Group. The contract – awarded by a Labour Relations Board-appointed arbitrator …

Printer Friendly Version [Victoria] The B.C. Liberal government’s refusal to make long-term investments to support health care in the province’s growing communities undermines innovation and spells more uncertainty in the year ahead, says the Hospital …

Printer Friendly Version Government documents obtained by the BC Health Coalition expose plans to expand the contracting out of surgeries to for-profit clinics even though the “Conversation on Health” public consultation has not yet concluded. In a July …

Printer Friendly Version The provincial government today issued a list of qualified bidders for hospital projects in the Okanagan that could include firing hundreds of health care workers using legislation ruled unconstitutional by the country’s highest …