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Similarities cited with Mulchey severance scandal, as FOIs filed to press for full disclosure of all executive payouts The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) demanded today that health minister Colin Hansen order an immediate and independent investigation …

On eve of the Campbell government’s announcement of deep health care cuts that’s set for Tuesday, the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) says that today it received leaked details outlining the specific cuts, closures and privatization plans for one key …

Anger over privatization still strong as health care workers await deeper cuts announcement expected next week Members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) from Lion’s Gate Hospital and other health facilities on the North Shore will gather to “lunch” …

Media Release issued by: Labour Environmental Alliance Better Environmentally Sound Transportation David Suzuki Foundation The Fraser Health Authority should reverse its decision to truck dirty laundry from four Fraser Valley hospitals to Calgary for …

Save Capilano Care Centre Rally — today at 11:30 a.m., Park Royal Mall Community outrage over the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s proposed closure of the 217-bed Capilano Care Centre is the reason that residents’ families, their caregivers and …

The Hospital Employees’ Union is demanding that the Interior Health Authority audit the finances of the Pine Grove Care Centre in Kamloops to determine how their public funding is being split between front-line care and company profits. The union is …

Printer Friendly Version Health care workers, especially in long-term carefacilities, frequently identify inadequate staffing levels and heavy workloads as primary reasons for not being able to deliver the proper care and attention to residents – a …

Printer Friendly Version Delegates to the 27th biennial convention of the Hospital Employees’ Union have re-elected Ken Robinson as president of the 43,000-member union. Robinson,a diet technician at Kelowna General Hospital and HEU member for 20 years, …

Printer Friendly Version A publicly subsidized care home operator in Kamloops has told 140 ofits unionized employees that it will contract out their work just weeks after they reached a first contract. The company that owns Hamlets at Westsyde says that …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Unionsays that under Gordon Campbell’s premiership, B.C. has undergone massive privatization of health care services, unprecedented attacks on the rights ofhealth care workers, and growing instability and …