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Printer Friendly Version Delegates to the 26th biennial convention of the Hospital Employees’ Union have elected Ken Robinson as the new president of the 43,000-member union. Robinson is a diet technician at Kelowna General Hospital and has been an HEU …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital cleaners and food service workers, employed by multinational corporations – Sodexo, Aramark and Compass – will take their campaign for living wages to the streets of downtown Vancouver this Sunday. Wearing T-shirts that …

More than 90 per cent of British Columbians say B.C.’s health authorities should require corporate cleaning and food service contractors to pay family-supporting wages to their workers, according to polling numbers released today by the Hospital …

Printer Friendly Version Check out the video Just hours after Health Minister George Abbott tabled controversial amendments to the Medicare Protection Act on April 8, more than 200 people attended a public talk by physicians and international policy …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital cleaning will continue to be delivered by Interior Health employees at Vernon Jubilee and Kelowna General even though the construction, finance and maintenance of facility expansion projects will be tendered to a short …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union is calling on B.C. Auditor General John Doyle to launch a value-for-money audit into the costs of building the Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre as a privately financed, public-private …

B.C. CEDAW Group news release (pdf format) The government of British Columbia is ignoring the human rights of the province’s most vulnerable women, according to a new report released today by the B.C. CEDAW Group, a coalition of women’s and human rights …

A tentative deal between the Northern Health Authority and health unions that would have traded wage and other concessions for a six-month freeze on contracting out has been rejected. Although 56 per cent voted in favour of the memorandum of agreement …

Printer Friendly Version Total project cost up 94 per cent to $1.4 billion, unclear risk transfer, and no competition mean a public hospital the best deal, says HEU Respected auditor Ron Parks questions the value for money and the high potential risk …

Medicare campaigners visit Chetwynd at 1:30 p.m. Monday An ambulance carrying an important message about the future of Medicare will be in Chetwynd on Monday as part of a nine day province-wide tour. The ambulance is staffed by front-line health care …