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The Hospital Employees’ Union says it’s “unconscionable” that health employers have warned local union activists that they could be fired for their efforts to ensure that essential service staffing is in place to protect patient care in B.C. hospitals …

Cancel tender, conduct investigation, union urges Victoria The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says health minister Colin Hansen should put a stop to a privatization tender put out by the Northern Health Authority after the union obtained a NHA document …

Premier Gordon Campbell should step back from his decision to rip up a wide range of union collective agreements, says B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair, to save the province from the economic and social turmoil that would result. "We know …

More than 12,000 health care jobs next on Campbell’s chopping block — HEU An unprecedented loss of front-line health care workers and the services they deliver are next up on Victoria’s chopping block, the Hospital Employees’ Union has learned. B.C.’s …

Unions mobilizing to fight government Labour groups say cuts will hurt all British Columbians B.C. labour groups are not going to be quiet about the Liberal government’s cuts to the province’s public service. In Burnaby, over 200 union representatives …

A sweeping bill forced through the provincial legislature overnight means many B.C. communities are a step closer to losing their hospitals, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. And the union says that the Campbell Liberals have crossed a moral boundary by …

Graham Bruce is simply not telling the truth, says union After carefully reviewing comments made last night by Premier Campbell's labour minister during debate on legislation to unilaterally eliminate provisions of health care workers' contracts, the …

Today’s BC budget update takes an important first step towards restoring and improving seniors’ care, but the 42,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union says more must be done in next year’s budget to make up for cuts made in the government’s first term. …

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The provincial government’s legislation tearing up union contracts and paving the way for health care privatization has drawn the attention of a Washington, D.C.-based web site that monitors the French multinational Sodexho. The controversial food …