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Printer Friendly Version Approximately 1,100 hospital housekeepers and dietary workers, employed in the Provincial Health Services and Vancouver Island Health authorities, strongly rejected Compass’ final offer in votes held throughout the past week. In …

Printer Friendly Version Vancouver - Today the BC Health Coalition (BCHC) announced the upcoming January 2009 launch of their Seniors’ Health Care campaign , Broken Promises. The campaign will be focused on the growing crisis in seniors’ health around …

Printer Friendly Version The BC Health Coalition is deeply disturbed by BCAA’s recent announcement to begin offering insurance that will allow its members to jump the health care queue and obtain services at for-profit clinics. The actions of BCAA clearly …

Printer Friendly Version The B.C. government is once again poised to conclude another session of the legislature without taking action to resolve seniors’ health care concerns. One year ago, Patricia Baird tabled the Premier’s Council on Aging and …

Printer Friendly Version Health care unions met today with representatives of the provincial government to deal with the repercussions of last June’s landmark Supreme Court decision that declared parts of a 2002 contract-stripping law unconstitutional. …

Printer Friendly Version More than six years after imposing a law that rewrote collective agreements, the BC Liberals have tabled a bill to implement last year’s historic Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down key provisions of Bill 29 – the …

Printer friendly version Unions representing 40,000 health care workers have reached a tentative settlement to implement last June’s landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling on Bill 29 . It includes expanded rights and protections plus a significant …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union has filed more than a dozen freedom of information (FOI) requests for documents related to the awarding of commercial contracts by B.C.’s health authorities worth an estimated $650 million. HEU filed …

Printer Friendly Version Hospital Employees’ Union members have voted 94 per cent in favour of labour adjustment measures and new rights that are part of a settlement to last year’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling striking down anti-labour legislation …

Printer Friendly Version The provincial government has an historic opportunity to address the growing crisis in seniors’ and patient care by reviewing its position on contracting out, say unions representing 40,000 health care workers in talks with …