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Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union says it’s time for the Salvation Army to bring housekeeping and food services back in-house in order to improve seniors’ care at a lodge it runs in Victoria. The union’s call comes on news that Sunset …

B.C. Health Coalition News Release Community and labour leaders gathered in Vancouver today to raise the alarm over the erosion of B.C.’s health care system and to endorse the “Call to Care” — an eight point statement that reinforces Medicare’s values …

Printer Friendly Version If health employers in the Nass Valley have their way at the bargaining table, Nisga’a health care workers would earn wages far below the standard in other northern communities, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. Last week, the …

B.C. Health Coalition News Release The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s first public Board of Directors meeting is a year too late and limited in its public input, says a medicare advocacy group. More than 40 groups applied to appear before the VCHA …

Job action at nearly 30 other health care facilities continues Monday Printer Friendly Version Sodexho workers at seven facilities in the Fraser Health Authority will cast strike votes beginning today as job action covering the French corporation’s …

Labour holds rally in support of Sodexho workers Printer Friendly Version   Rally takes place at noon, today,at West 10 th and Heather Street at Vancouver Hospital   Labour leaders will speak at a rally in support of 1,100 Sodexho workers who have been …

Printer Friendly Version [Burnaby] — Employees of the French corporation Sodexho working at local health facilities have delivered a 96 per cent strike mandate to their union bargaining committee. The votes were carried out over the last week and counted …

Printer Friendly Version A province-wide hospital housekeeping audit released yesterday by B.C.’s health authorities fails to address the root causes of poor cleaning standards at some B.C. hospitals. And the Hospital Employees’ Union is urging health …

Input from front-line dietary staff working in BC’s hospitals and long-term care facilities is key to a plan by the province’s six health authorities to review food services. Judy Darcy, secretary-business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, says …

Printer Friendly Version Nearly 300 employees of UK-based Compass Group, the corporation contracted to provide retail and patient food services and housekeeping at three Lower Mainland health facilities covered by the Provincial Health Services Authority, …