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Printer Friendly Version   HEU members are reeling from a surprise announcement by the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) that more than 250 regular care staff will lose their jobs over the summer with the planned closure of hundreds of long-term …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union is sounding the alarm about plans by multi-national corporation, Compass Group, to hire temporary foreign workers to clean operating rooms and feed patients in Vancouver Island hospitals by year’s …

Printer Friendly Version Health care workers employed by Abby Therapeutic Services at MSA Manor in Abbotsford are being laid off just two weeks after they joined a union and one week after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the contracting out …

Printer Friendly Version About 600 delegates representing 43,000 health and community social services workers will gather in Vancouver next week for the 26th biennial convention of the Hospital Employees' Union. The convention runs from Monday, November 3 …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union is looking forward to constructive discussions with the B.C. government on the implications of the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision striking down key sections of Bill 29 , The Health and …

Printer Friendly Version B.C. politicians can no longer turn their backs on the growing threat of private health care interests in the wake of today’s Supreme Court decision that opened the door to two-tier health care in Quebec, says the Hospital …

Uncensored version of consultant’s report reveals cooked numbers, says HEU The censored information contained in a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report released yesterday indicates that a privately built and operated hospital in Abbotsford will cost taxpayers …

BC Nurses' Union/Hospital Employees' Union Joint News Release Patients were put at serious risk because of restructuring forced on the Fraser Health Authority by the tight fiscal mandate imposed on health care by the Campbell government Printer Friendly …

Health care unions file employment standards charge Health employers are disregarding even minimum employment standards as they prepare to fire hundreds of front-line workers, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). And the union has filed a complaint …

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