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First they turned to the courts to compel the Fraser Health Authority to open its board meetings to area residents. Now the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is appealing to B.C.’s freedom of information commissioner to force the FHA to make public the …

Approximately 300 members of the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) will receive displacement notices before the end of the month, as the Vancouver Island Health Authority proceeds with its plan to shut down Gorge Road Hospital in Victoria. “The closure of …

Printer Friendly Version The Provincial Executive of the Hospital Employees’ Union announced today that it has hired Judy Darcy as its new secretary-business manager. Darcy — who led the Canadian Union of Public Employees as both its national president …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union will pay Catalyst Paper (formerly NorskeCanada) $125,000 to settle a legal action launched by the company in 2004. Catalyst had made a legal claim of damages for lost production and labour costs …

The Campbell Liberals have cut more than 1,200 hospital beds since 2001 according to their own numbers , says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The information was released in response to the B.C. Liberal campaign’s so-called “real story on hospital …

Printer Friendly Version A B.C. cabinet minister is denying that her government imposed 15 per cent wage cuts on health care workers a year ago. Last night in Vancouver, Minister of State for Early Childhood Development Linda Reid told an all-candidates’ …

Printer Friendly Version The Campbell Liberals need to take responsibility for the declining state of health care in the Fraser Health Authority that led to the firing of its CEO, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. “It’s an act of pre-election panic by a …

Printer Friendly Version The Campbell Liberals are promising a major salvage operation on a health care system reeling from their three and a half year campaign of cuts, closures and privatization, but today’s budget is short on details, says the Hospital …

Printer Friendly Version The Hospital Employees’ Union says a plan by the Vancouver Island Health Authority to send “smile teams” into health care workplaces to distribute treats to demoralized workers is inappropriate and should be shelved. On Friday, …

Printer Friendly Version B.C.’s auditor general should oversee the development and implementation of a province-wide audit of cleanliness standards in hospitals and long-term care facilities, says the Hospital Employees’ Union. The union says independent …