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Victoria, employers urged to reconsider in best interests of patients The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says it’s deeply disappointed that government and health employers have cancelled face-to-face talks set for Feb.14 aimed at finding alternatives to …

Vancouver nursing home operator had pressured workers to decertify or join `Christian’ union to keep their jobs Just days after the Labour Relations Board ruled that the operator of a Vancouver long-term care home had engaged in unfair labour practices, …

HEU asks privacy commissioner to force health authority to make public details of private laundry contract Forty-seven laundry workers at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver are being issued pink slips in the second round of privatization-related lay …

Care aides, LPNs and activity aides latest victims of provincial government’s Bill 29, says HEU For the second time in less than a month, a Lower Mainland seniors’ facility is using the provisions of the B.C. Liberals’ contract-breaking legislation to lay …

The official responsible for Taiwan’s efforts to control the spread of SARS has issued a stark warning about the dangers of contracting out hospital staff that B.C.’s health authorities should heed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). According to …

Willingdon Park care aides — the first health care workers delivering direct patient care to be contracted out in B.C. — are rallying against the privatization of seniors’ care at Burnaby’s Willingdon Park Hospital, June 14 at 11 a.m. The care aides, who …

A move by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority to privatize thousands of surgical procedures has staggering implications for public health care, says a medicare advocacy organization. And the B.C. Health Coalition is calling on Health Services Minister …

Printer Friendly Version A decision by B.C. Liberal MLAs to support a 29 per cent wage increase for themselves is unacceptable when they refuse to raise the minimum wage and continue to support low-wage policies in health care, says the Hospital …

HEU TV ads send a message about the impact of health care privatization on patients Privatization, it's the wrong answer for patients is the message in series of TV ads sponsored by the Hospital Employees' Union (CUPE)in 2002 and 2003. The ads target the …

Printer Friendly Version Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act reveal serious tensions between the Fraser Health Authority and the BC Liberals over whether the new Surrey Ambulatory Care Facility should be …