Burnaby MLA takes issue with bid to replace skilled workers at nursing facility
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Burnaby-Willingdon MLA John Nuraney is speaking out on behalf front-line health care workers sacked by a nursing home operator in his constituency. After meeting Wednesday afternoon with a dozen workers who have been laid off, Nuraney wrote the operators …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Chilliwack health care workers have first contract
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Fifty-two employees at Waverly of Chilliwack, a private intermediate, multi-level health care facility, are going to see a lot more money on their next pay cheques. Their benefits will also take a giant leap forward under a binding arbitration award …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Public underwhelmed by Campbell Liberals’ economic performance — poll
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Results also show that 3 of 4 British Columbians and more than half of B.C. Liberal supporters critical of government record on social policy Are families better off and their futures more secure as a result of the B.C. Liberals’ election 20 months ago? …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 20, 2003 Public underwhelmed by Campbell Liberals’ economic performance — poll Results also show that 3 of 4 British Columbians and more than half of B.C. Liberal supporters critical of government record on social policy Are …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
New health care money needs strings attached — B.C. unions
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Globe and Mail ad argues that a contract-breaking B.C. premier can’t be trusted with untied health dollars Should strings be attached to increased federal health dollars to guarantee that provincial premiers like B.C.’s Gordon Campbell actually spend the …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Hospital housekeepers, dietary workers deliver 15,000-strong living wage petition to Premier
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Printer Friendly Version Backgrounder At a campaign stop in Burnaby today, hospital housekeepers presented Gordon Campbell with 15,000 signatures calling on government and its health authorities to take responsibility for the wages and working conditions …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Cut-rate contract blasts health care wages and working conditions back to the 1960s
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Tough sanctions being sought against rogue IWA local that signed the deal The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is stepping up its efforts at the Labour Relations Board to challenge a cozy deal between a giant private health care multinational and a rogue …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
B.C.’s largest health care union holds biennial convention Oct. 15-20 in Richmond
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Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and CUPE national president Judy Darcy to address delegates More than 600 health care workers from across B.C. will gather in Richmond next week for the biennial convention of the 46,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union. The …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU members are 'toilet cleaners,' say Libs
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Union asks B.C. Liberal leader to apologize for caucus member’s "demeaning and insulting" comment The Hospital Employees’ Union is asking B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Campbell to apologize to housekeeping staff in Kamloops and across the province after one …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Public convinced (64 per cent) Campbell Liberals’ health privatization agenda means lower quality care, more risk to patients
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Printer Friendly Version And 2 out of 3 believe high demand health occupations should be exempt from legislated wage cuts to avoid recruitment and retention crisis Nearly two months after this spring’s health care job action, British Columbians are …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021