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Globe and Mail ad argues that a contract-breaking B.C. premier can’t be trusted with untied health dollars Should strings be attached to increased federal health dollars to guarantee that provincial premiers like B.C.’s Gordon Campbell actually spend the …

Printer Friendly Version Backgrounder At a campaign stop in Burnaby today, hospital housekeepers presented Gordon Campbell with 15,000 signatures calling on government and its health authorities to take responsibility for the wages and working conditions …

Tough sanctions being sought against rogue IWA local that signed the deal The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is stepping up its efforts at the Labour Relations Board to challenge a cozy deal between a giant private health care multinational and a rogue …

Premier Ujjal Dosanjh and CUPE national president Judy Darcy to address delegates More than 600 health care workers from across B.C. will gather in Richmond next week for the biennial convention of the 46,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union. The …

Union asks B.C. Liberal leader to apologize for caucus member’s "demeaning and insulting" comment The Hospital Employees’ Union is asking B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Campbell to apologize to housekeeping staff in Kamloops and across the province after one …

Printer Friendly Version And 2 out of 3 believe high demand health occupations should be exempt from legislated wage cuts to avoid recruitment and retention crisis Nearly two months after this spring’s health care job action, British Columbians are …

Arbitrator Allan Hope Q.C. released his long-awaited decision in the case of Nanaimo Regional General Hospital worker Vicki Bertram, and it is not good news for the union activist nor the Hospital Employees' Union. In the recommendation, Hope upholds …

Printer Friendly Version Three organizations including the Hospital Employees’ Union/CUPE will be hosting the B.C. leg of a national tour on the state of seniors’ residential care in Canada with free public forums on Tuesday, January 19 in Burnaby, …

Printer Friendly Version In a report released today, the province’s best-known forensic accountant says that the B.C. Auditor General’s office should play a more active and direct role in assessing whether taxpayers are getting value for money from …

And in a province-wide radio ad campaign on-air starting December 27, HEU talks about the varied and essential roles its members play delivering care to British Columbians. Bargaining for 40,000 HEU members begins in early 2006, and the union says it's …