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The seniors’ care landscape has endured waves of change over the last 20 years, and care aide Jennifer Reitan has had a front row seat since 1997.   That’s when she left her first job at Lions Gate Hospital and moved to Castlegar, a town of 8,000 set …

As chronic short-staffing plagues B.C.’s health care system, more employers are relying on private temporary work agencies to fill vacancies. Although acute care hospitals are using agencies to fill nursing, care aide and allied health positions, the …

Workplace incidents involving substance use are taken seriously in health care settings.  But a punitive, one-size-fits-all policy applied by Interior Health Authority (IHA) has long been the subject of challenges by HEU. A policy grievance filed in 2014 …

[BURNABY] – On Friday, November 24, nearly 1,100 members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) who work in long-term care for Good Samaritan Canada renewed a collective agreement that prevents contracting out, provides enhanced benefits and shift …

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[BURNABY] - This afternoon, Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) members will walk off the job for a period of six hours at two of Good Samaritan Canada’s seven long-term care work sites across the province, in an effort to reach a settlement after two years …

48.5 per cent say their work experience over the last three years has made it likely they will leave their job within the next two years More than half say they don’t have time to meet residents’ care needs 82 per cent report having been victims of …