Strike votes begin at seven more Sodexho sites
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Job action at nearly 30 other health care facilities continues Monday Printer Friendly Version Sodexho workers at seven facilities in the Fraser Health Authority will cast strike votes beginning today as job action covering the French corporation’s …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Labour holds rally in support of Sodexho workers
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Labour holds rally in support of Sodexho workers Printer Friendly Version Rally takes place at noon, today,at West 10 th and Heather Street at Vancouver Hospital Labour leaders will speak at a rally in support of 1,100 Sodexho workers who have been …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Sodexho workers give union 96 per cent strike mandate
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Printer Friendly Version [Burnaby] — Employees of the French corporation Sodexho working at local health facilities have delivered a 96 per cent strike mandate to their union bargaining committee. The votes were carried out over the last week and counted …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Hospital housekeeping audit raises more questions than it answers
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Printer Friendly Version A province-wide hospital housekeeping audit released yesterday by B.C.’s health authorities fails to address the root causes of poor cleaning standards at some B.C. hospitals. And the Hospital Employees’ Union is urging health …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health authorities' food services audit needs workers' input HEU
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Input from front-line dietary staff working in BC’s hospitals and long-term care facilities is key to a plan by the province’s six health authorities to review food services. Judy Darcy, secretary-business manager of the Hospital Employees’ Union, says …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
More Compass workers vote to join HEU
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Printer Friendly Version Nearly 300 employees of UK-based Compass Group, the corporation contracted to provide retail and patient food services and housekeeping at three Lower Mainland health facilities covered by the Provincial Health Services Authority, …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Activists end sit-in at health authority offices
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More than a dozen Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE), B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union and seniors’ activists have ended their sit-in at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority offices where they were calling for comprehensive public …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
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Union’s chief bargaining spokesperson will be available to local media at 9:20 a.m., Wednesday Local union activists from health care facilities around Vancouver Island. are gathering in Victoria tomorrow where they’ll receive an update on collective …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
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Union’s chief bargaining spokesperson will be available to local media at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday Local union activists from health care facilities around the Okanagan are gathering in Kelowna tomorrow where they’ll receive an update on collective bargaining …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021
Health care bargaining entering critical phase, say unions
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After seven weeks at the bargaining table, unions representing 60,000 front-line health care workers in hospitals, long-term care homes, health authorities and community agencies say negotiations with health employers must pick up steam in order to reach …
Last updated: Jun 1, 2021