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Details follow of coverage opportunities for B.C. media and media assistance provided by HEU communications staff The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) expects thousands of front-line health care workers and their families to be marching on the Legislature …

The Hospital Employees’ Union says this afternoon’s Speech from the Throne with its sweeping hints of more upheaval and privatization in health care will further destabilize care services for British Columbians. “What our health care system needs more …

Union files defamation suit against Liberal leader, three cabinet ministers for comments about health workers’ contracts The Hospital Employees’ Union today initiated legal action against Premier Gordon Campbell and three of his cabinet ministers alleging …

Hear Dr. Allyson Pollock at free public forum on Feb. 8, 7 p.m., at Abbotsford’s Matsqui Centennial Auditorium As B.C.’s Liberal government and the Fraser Health Authority are poised to proceed with a plan for Canada’s first private hospital in the Fraser …

Municipalities will foot the bill while patients and health care workers put at risk — HEU The Fraser Health Authority has taken the first step towards contracting out its protection services in a move that the Hospital Employees’ Union says will offload …

Polling data shows British Columbians are firmly opposed to Liberals’ draconian Bill 29 British Columbians are strongly opposed to the contract-breaking legislation recently passed by the Liberal government. And with new polling results at hand, unions …

Two hundred and sixty-four health care and support workers at Sunridge Place, members of the Hospital Employees’ Union, have received lay-off notices in the wake of the sale of the Duncan facility.   The lay-off notices, received by staff on February 17, …

The 43,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union welcomes Health Minister Terry Lake’s appointment of Isobel Mackenzie as B.C.’s seniors’ advocate. HEU secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson says the new seniors’ advocate is much needed and hopes that …

  M*Modal – the American-based, medical transcription contractor hired by Lower Mainland health authorities last year – has declared bankruptcy.  Led by Providence Health Care (PHC), health authorities fired 130 in-house medical transcriptionists and …

Health care unions representing 47,000 health care workers are seeking a strike mandate from members to back efforts to reach an agreement with B.C.’s health employers. The 11-union Facilities Bargaining Association says that talks have stalled on a …