About
History
HSA began in 1971 with nine health science professional disciplines at two Lower Mainland hospitals. The union now represents more than 16,000 health care and social services professionals in hospitals, child development centres, transition houses and other community agencies around the province. As it has grown in a linear manner, so has its consciousness grown. From an organization of professionals who traditionally negotiated their own salaries (that began in part because members wanted to avoid being a union), HSA now bargains in concert with others and sets as its goals nothing less than the preservation of public health care in Canada. |
