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Budget 2022: Health care system strained by COVID-19 will struggle to deliver services in face of changing demographics, increased costs [VICTORIA, B.C.] Budget 2022 commits funds for training more care aides and reversing the privatization of critical …

“I’m an activity worker in long-term care, and at the start of COVID-19 there was a lot of changes in protocols regarding long term care and family visitation. We had to adapt our jobs because the recreation programs shut down. Recreation programs changed …

The first week of negotiations for a new facilities collective agreement has wrapped up, with an agreement to return to the table next Wednesday, and more bargaining dates scheduled to continue into April. In her opening remarks , HEU’s secretary-business …

[Burnaby, B.C.] – The Hospital Employees’ Union is welcoming today’s transfer of nearly 180 privatized food service workers back to the Vancouver Island Health Authority at Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals. It is the second group of workers in …

Last week, bargaining began for a new Community Social Services collective agreement. The Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) committee initiated talks with the Community Social Services Employers Association (CSSEA) bargaining …

“It’s so easy for health care workers to forget about self-care when we’re so committed to our jobs but are overloaded. Health care workers are constantly working short, facing high workloads, and burning out. And it’s resulting in many workers having to …

Provincial public health officials have updated the Point of Care Risk Assessment (PCRA) tool used by health care workers to assess the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in their interactions with patients. This may support requests for N95 respirators in a …

Today, a convoy of trucks is planned for Vancouver to oppose public health measures that are helping prevent our hospitals from completely collapsing under the weight of this pandemic.   After nearly two years on the front lines of this pandemic, hospital …

Since the government’s announcement to reunite the health care team in August 2021, health authorities have been moving swiftly to bring privatized cleaning and dietary staff back in-house. In November 2021, 252 HEU members at six sites on Vancouver …