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Front-line caregivers, seniors’ and community activists, and union leaders will rally for quality seniors’ care at Willingdon Park Hospital in Burnaby at 11:00 a.m. on May 14 in the wake of layoff notices issued to the facility’s 35 care aides late last …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will pay Canadian Forest Products Limited (Canfor) $500,000 to settle a legal action launched by the company in 2004. Canfor made a legal claim of damages for lost production and labour costs related …

Food and cleaning services headed for contracting out at Children’s and Women’s Hospital, B.C. Cancer Agency It’s eight days before Christmas and the Provincial Health Services Authority is getting ready to contract out food and cleaning services in …

The highest court in the land said today that it will hear arguments on whether the Gordon Campbell government’s contract-breaking law violates the equality and freedom of association rights of health care workers in B.C. On trial is Bill 29 - the 2002 …

HEU calls the move “provocative and destabilizing,” urges province to put the brakes on contracting out, rebuild trust with front-line health workers The B.C. Liberals are being urged to take dramatic steps to rebuild trust with front-line health care …

47 per cent give government “poor” health rating; 58 per cent oppose P3 hospitals; 60 per cent doubt health service quality can be maintained by private contractors The B.C. Liberals’ performance on health care is rated as poor by 47 per cent of British …

Justification for secrecy a “stunning disregard” for the law, says Justice B.C.’s secretive health authorities will now have to meet in public and only move behind closed doors in “limited circumstances” as a result of a B.C. Supreme Court ruling handed …

Community of Revelstoke wins one year extension on closure of long-term care facility Residents of Revelstoke’s Moberly Manor can unpack their suitcases — at least for a few more months — thanks to a high profile campaign waged against the long-term care …

Where: Grassy knoll in front of Children’s Hospital on Oak Street When: March 14, 11 am - 1 pm Speaker: HEU secretary-business manager Chris Allnutt to speak at 11:30 am Refreshments While health care union negotiators and employers caucus through the …

VIHA urged to protect quality services and jobs In a bid to protect quality services, save jobs and ward off further privatization in B.C.’s public health care system, unionized workers tabled a proposal with the Vancouver Island Health Authority today …