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HEU’s 29th biennial convention will be held November 2 to 7, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver. This year's theme - We Built This Union Together: 70 years - is special as we'll be celebrating our 70th anniversary. Be sure to check out the 2014 issues of the Guardian for a three-part series on the history of HEU. During convention, delegates will debate and vote on resolutions and constitutional amendments; discuss the union’s strategic directions document, and elect a new Provincial Executive.

We're marking the 70th anniversary of HEU. On October 13, 1944 the Trades and Labour Congress chartered the Hospital Employees' Federal Union Local 180 at Vancouver General Hospital, which later became known as the Hospital Employees' Union.

July 22, 2015

“Medicare came in through the New Democratic Party. It’s part of our DNA. And we’re going to defend it every step of the way,” pledged NDP leader of the opposition, Tom Mulcair, in his conversation with the 6,000 HEU members who joined the union’s special telephone town hall on July 21.

May 31, 2015 This information was updated at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 31 Patient transfer services workers represented by CUPE Local 873 are planning to take job action as early as Monday, June 1 at 11:59 p.m. The job action potentially impacts more than 250 acute care, long-term care and community health sites across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.

May 31, 2015

The key issues in the dispute are compensation and scheduling. Transfer services impact more than 250 acute care, long-term care and community health sites across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Those sites include those run by health authorities, affiliates and many privately-operated sites. If HEU members encounter a picket line they should not cross it. However, the Labour Relations Board has placed several restrictions on picket lines.

October 13, 2015 For seven decades, Hospital Employees’ Union members have been dedicated to delivering quality public health care to British Columbians every single day. For nearly a decade, HEU has supported five occupational subcommittees – clerical, support, trades and maintenance, patient care technical and patient care – consisting of rank-and-file members, Provincial Executive (P.E.) members and staff advisors. 

News release March 19, 2014

The 43,000-member Hospital Employees’ Union welcomes Health Minister Terry Lake’s appointment of Isobel Mackenzie as B.C.’s seniors’ advocate. HEU secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson says the new seniors’ advocate is much needed and hopes that government will provide the office with the necessary independence to do her job.

An overwhelming majority of new Compass employees signed HEU membership cards. Very soon, your ballots will arrive in the mail and you will have an opportunity to say yes to HEU. And when you cast your ballot and vote for HEU, you stand with 46,000 other workers in B.C.’s oldest and largest health care union. To get the latest updates, please check back here, or visit our Facebook page for Compass members.

Since 2014, B.C. has lost half billion dollars in federal health care transfers March 31, 2016

The Hospital Employees Union (HEU) is calling on the federal Liberal government to honour its 2015 election commitments to bring back a national Health Accord in partnership with British Columbia and the other provinces.

The Hospital Employees’ Union is asking B.C.’s privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham to launch an investigation into outsourced medical transcription services in the Lower Mainland, citing concerns over the privacy and accuracy of patients’ medical information.

Over the past few years, these health authorities have dramatically expanded the outsourcing of medical transcription and plan to completely contract out the service by 2014.

HEU’s January 31 letter to B.C.’s privacy commissioner

Health Care Assistants include care aides and community health workers. Every day, these dedicated health care staff work miracles to provide quality care to the frail elderly and others who require assistance with their personal care needs. These care staff assist residents, patients and clients with their most intimate care needs like toileting, bathing, dressing and eating. Care aides, community health workers, and other health care assistants -- visit our Time to Care page Check out our wrap on today's edition of 24 Hours Vancouver Listen to our radio ad airing across B.C. on October 18 read HEU secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson's message on Health Care Assistant Day But care aides and community health workers are also like family, providing opportunities for the social interaction that is so fundamental to quality of life of the elderly. Unfortunately, care aides and community health workers often struggle under impossible workloads to deliver good care in homes, nursing homes and hospitals.

Let's honour HEU's care aides and community health workers.

Every day, these dedicated health care staff work miracles to provide quality care to the frail elderly and others who require assistance with their personal care needs. These front line care staff assist residents, patients and clients with their most intimate care needs including toileting, bathing, dressing, eating and more. For many, they are also like family, providing the social interaction and personal contact that is so fundamental to helping the elderly maintain their quality of life. Unfortunately, care aides and community health workers often struggle under impossible workloads to deliver safe, compassionate care in homes, long-term care facilities and hospitals.

April 22, 2016 Fearing deportation should never be part of a hospital visit.

The HEU, which represents workers at both Stanford Place in Parksville and Malaspina Gardens in Nanaimo, was notified during the Thanksgiving weekend that 350 workers face the possibility of losing their jobs.

The HEU was told that at Malaspina Gardens, Chartwell Seniors REIT, the company that runs the facility, plans to contract out their jobs

At Stanford Place, workers joined the HEU in May 2010 and are now saddled with an imposed first collective bargaining agreement from a third-party mediator who was hired to mediate the negotiations by the B.C.

Bargaining bulletin February 3, 2014

Members of the multi-union Community Health Bargaining Association (CBA) have voted in favour of a five-year contract with the Health Employers Association of BC. 

Contracted Support Services,Sodexo, Compass Group, Aramark September 17, 2013 [Burnaby, B.C.] The Hospital Employees’ Union has negotiated a critical agreement with one of three multinational contractors that together employ more than 4,400 support staff at dozens of hospitals and care facilities in the Lower Mainland, and on Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. A tentative agreement with Paris-based Sodexo includes significant improvements to benefits, along with wage adjustments, for more than 1,400 cleaning and dietary staff located mostly in the Lower Mainland and on the Sunshine Coast. 

October 4, 2013

As the B.C. health services division of CUPE National, HEU encourages our members to fill out a new survey on the impact of “working alone” – an issue that’s been frequently raised by our community health and community social services members. CUPE’s National Health and Safety Committee – which has HEU representation – has identified working alone as a significant factor in unsafe workplaces.

April 23, 2014 They are often behind the scenes performing “invisible” jobs, but nearly 10,000 members of HEU’s clerical team provide a vital role in delivering quality care to British Columbians. That’s why HEU locals across the province are proud to celebrate the vital contribution clerical workers make to their health care team. In previous years, HEU’s Clerical Team Appreciation Day has been scheduled on various dates. But the union’s clerical subcommittee decided for consistency to partner their day with the national Administrative Professionals Day, which falls in April.

May 14, 2015

VICTORIA – The voices of 12,423 British Columbians were heard at the provincial legislature this morning with the tabling of a petition calling on government to halt the Interior Health Authority’s plan to privatize hospital laundry services in 11 communities. A delegation of Hospital Employees’ Union laundry workers presented their petition to NDP MLAs Michelle Mungall, Jennifer Rice and opposition health critic Judy Darcy on the steps of the legislature, prior to being tabled during Question Period.

Sunday, September 20, 2015 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Location: Sunset Beach, Vancouver, BC AIDS Walk for Life starts at 10:00 a.m. Walking starts at 11:30 a.m. (a 6.75 km walk along the Seawall or a 2.2 km shorter walk) Join the HEU Team!