Sally Ann opts to eliminate skilled, experienced health care workers; turns down offer that would meet budget targets
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Health care workers at Sunset Lodge are deeply disappointed that an offer to help the facility deal with its budget pressures has been dismissed, says the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). During the past two weeks fired workers at the Victoria long-term …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
HEU charges Children’s and Women’s Health Centre, Cancer Agency with unfair labour practices
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Laid off hospital workers hold solidarity BBQ as mass firings near With hundreds of health care workers about to hit Vancouver’s unemployment lines, the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) has lodged unfair labour practice complaints at the Labour Relations …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
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Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Hospital unions join in security fight
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All three major unions at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital have joined forces in an ongoing arbitration to bring security staff under the collective agreement between the facility and the Hospital Employees’ Union. “We are pleased to have the B.C. …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Joint release of HEU, BCNU, BCGEU and HSA: BC's health unions demonstrate against private health care
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Health care workers and other medicare advocates in B.C. joined thousands of demonstrators across Canada today to demand immediate action by Ottawa to stop privatization of medicare. "We are on the brink of Canada's biggest medical emergency ever," Jim …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
New practical nurse training seats will help ease nursing shortage
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HEU pleased with government’s broad-based approach The Hospital Employees’ Union says today’s announcement by the provincial government of 89 new training spaces for Licenced Practical Nurses (LPNs) is a positive move that will help ease B.C.’s chronic …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Imperial Place hires guards as pickets go up around facility
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Striking health care workers wonder how employer can afford it The employer at Imperial Place in Surrey seems to have resorted to bullying tactics — both of its striking workers and of the residents in the private, for-profit independent living facility. …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Low wages lead private contractors to offer bonuses, finders’ fees to hospital cleaners
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HEU questions whether health authorities exercised due diligence in privatizing services, calls for government investigation Foreign companies contracted to clean operating rooms, intensive care units and patient wards at major hospitals are paying wages …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health care workers hold rally in New Westminster on Friday
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With one week left before contracts for 60,000 health care workers expire, unions say bargaining is at a critical stage With little more than a week left before collective agreements expire for 60,000 health services and support workers, health care …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
It’s official: another seniors’ home shut down by Campbell government
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Forced relocation of Burnaby facility residents increases risk of death Burnaby’s Cascade Residence will shut its doors March 31, 2003 despite the negative impact that relocation has on nursing home residents and in the absence of any plans to accommodate …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021