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BC Health Coalition invites public to “report” on health cuts, calls for public hearings after health authority says $175 million in reductions are largely “administrative” Report cuts to justsayno@bchealthcoalition.ca or 1-877-600-1180 The Vancouver …

The operators of a seniors’ care facility in Nanaimo have cancelled their sub-contract for care services resulting in pink slips for more than 150 care aides, licensed practical nurses, recreation programmers and assisted living workers. Their union says …

Printer Friendly Version The provincial government's plan to turn over the financing and operation of expanded hospital facilities in the Okanagan to private corporations could include massive job losses, says the Hospital Employees' Union. A Request for …

Health care unions launch province-wide strike votes today Unions representing more than 60,000 health care workers are backing up their efforts to bargain wage equality for women by launching province-wide strike votes today — International Women’s Day. …

Printer Friendly Version About 250 dietary and cleaning staff employed by the British corporation Compass Group at three Vancouver health care facilities have been awarded a first collective agreement by a Labour Relations Board-appointed …

Printer Friendly Version The province’s largest health care union is demanding that the B.C. Liberal government release its controversial plans for health care that were foreshadowed in today’s Throne Speech. In its preview of a legislative agenda …

Printer Friendly Version The BC Health Coalition is calling on the provincial government to suspend plans to privatize health services during the course of its year-long Conversation on Health. Coalition spokesperson Leslie Dickout says a privatization …

Printer Friendly Version More than 700 dietary and cleaning workers employed by Compass Group at Vancouver Island Health Authority facilities are now members of the Hospital Employees’ Union. Ballots cast by workers in an October union representation vote …

Printer Friendly Version Compass Group employees working in the Provincial Health Services Authority have backed their union bargaining team’s effort to reach a first collective agreement with a 99 per cent strike mandate. The Hospital Employees’ Union …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital Employees’ Union members have reached a tentative agreement with the Philadelphia-based hospital contractor Aramark, covering about 1,000 cleaning staff employed in the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. The tentative …