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Fair wage increase, parity for community caregivers, measures to modernize Medicare on unions’ priority list Contract talks for more than 60,000 health care workers from hospitals, long-term care facilities and community health services get underway in …

LPNs, Care Aide utilization part of progressive strategy The Hospital Employees’ Union is enthusiastically welcoming today’s announcement by the NDP of significant new funding for progressive health action plan initiatives designed to improve health care …

Noon rally features CUPE national president Judy Darcy and BC Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair Hundreds of health care workers will rally later today outside the Richmond headquarters of the Workers’ Compensation Board. They’re speaking out …

And HEU's Chris Allnutt will report to convention delegates on the political and bargaining climate facing the 46,000-member union This morning, Premier Ujjal Dosanjh speaks to more than 600 health care workers from across B.C. who are gathered in …

Negative impact of job losses reaches beyond health care into the heart of B.C. communities B.C.’s health care system will be reeling from the loss of more than 9,000 skilled and experienced health care workers by mid-2004, says the Hospital Employees’ …

New study outlines timely, concrete solutions The Hospital Employees’ Union says a just-completed, comprehensive research study into the roles and utilization of Licensed Practical Nurses and Care Aides provides a road map for concrete solutions to the …

Major new study to be released Wednesday says health care system wastes untapped potential of Licensed Practical Nurses, Care Aides who can help address nursing shortage The 46,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union will release a major new study tomorrow …

HEU supports merger of VH under health board, move will better coordinate hospital-community health services The Hospital Employees’ Union says it supports the integration of Vancouver Hospital and three other health facilities directly under the …

Real cost of tax cuts signals end to Liberal honeymoon, says HEU The Hospital Employees’ Union learned on Friday that St. Paul’s Hospital is seriously considering shutting down its entire eighth floor — a total of seventy-two beds. This is only the first …

Liberals’ business loyalties override WCB’s mandate to protect workers’ health The Hospital Employees’ Union condemns the Liberal government’s move to delay, until at least April 2002, implementation of the Workers’ Compensation Board’s Environmental …