Transit cuts increase pressure on health care and other essential workers
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Workers on the front line of B.C’s pandemic response will face even longer days as a result of cuts to bus, SkyTrain, SeaBus and West Coast Express schedules, says the 50,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union. “These service cuts mean added stress for …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Care aides at Lynn Valley Care Centre seek union representation from HEU
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Care aides at Lynn Valley Care Centre, site of B.C.’s first long-term care COVID-19 outbreak, are taking steps to join the Hospital Employees’ Union. The union filed an application at the Labour Relations Board earlier this week, after a majority of the …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Care aides at Lynn Valley Care Centre join HEU
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Care aides at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver have voted to join the Hospital Employees’ Union in a mail-in ballot overseen by B.C.’s Employment Standards Branch, and counted today. Lynn Valley Care Centre was the site of Canada’s first …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Investments key to sustained health sector response to COVID-19, says HEU
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B.C.’s largest health care union is welcoming today’s announcement of a significant investment in front-line health care workers as part of $1.6 billion in provincial government funding to sustain B.C.’s health care system going forward. “These government …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
A BC NDP government to continue to “level up” wages in a new post-pandemic standard for seniors’ care workers
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Premier John Horgan says a re-elected NDP government will continue to top up wages for seniors’ care workers even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. The Hospital Employees’ Union says the move will provide stability and certainty for seniors and workers …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
BC NDP would end contracting out of hospital cleaners and dietary workers
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A re-elected NDP government will end the practice of contracting out hospital cleaning and food services to multinational corporations and bring these workers back under the control of public health authorities, according to the party’s election platform …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Key investments to fix seniors’ care reflected in B.C. budget
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The Hospital Employees’ Union says today’s B.C. budget contains key investments to help strengthen health care services tested by the global pandemic, while promoting greater equity for workers and patients. The budget includes nearly $600 million over …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
HEU announces Meena Brisard’s appointment as the union’s secretary-business manager
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The Hospital Employees’ Union announced today the appointment of Meena Brisard as its secretary-business manager, and she will assume those responsibilities later this summer. For the past 20 years, Brisard has been on staff with the Canadian Union of …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
B.C. Budget 2012: Silence on seniors' care, higher MSP premiums for families, and B.C. slides to ninth place in investment in its citizens' health care
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B.C.’s largest health care union says today’s provincial budget represents a lost opportunity to make strategic investments in seniors’ care and in the health of its citizens. The 43,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union says the budget confirms that the …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021
Canada won’t deal with women’s human rights crisis at home
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B.C. CEDAW Group/Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada (Vancouver): Canada and British Columbia are failing to deal with the human rights crisis of disappearances and murders of Aboriginal women and girls says Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the B.C. …
Last updated: Jun 29, 2021