Union Elections and Meetings

HSA members in Region 6 have elected Anita Bardal, a medical radiation technologist at St. Pauls Hospital, as their representative on the unions Board of Directors. The other candidates for election were James Lyons, a medical radiation technologist at Mount St. Joseph Hospital, and Mo Norton, a program support clerk at North Shore Community Health Services.Anita has been an HSA...

All HSA members are welcome to attend and speak at HSAs Annual Convention in Vancouver April 15-17, 2010, at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Only delegates, however, receive financial support to attend, and have the right to vote at convention. For chapters with 49 or fewer members, the HSA chief steward is the sole delegate. If the chief steward is not...

During the next several weeks, HSA members in Region 6 will have an opportunity to elect a new representative on HSAs Board of Directors. Current Region 6 Director, Rachel Tutte, is stepping down after serving 2 terms.Nominations for the position closed on February 1st with three members declaring their candidacy: Anita Bardal, a Medical Radiation Technologist at St. Pauls Hospital...

HSA members in Region 2 have once again elected Val Avery as their representative to the HSA Board of Directors. Val was acclaimed after the February 1st deadline passed with no further nominations. Val previously served as a Member-at-Large and for several years as Chief Steward at Victorias Royal Jubilee Hospital, where she works as a Physiotherapist. Val has been...

HSA members in Region 4 have elected Brendan Shields as their representative to the HSA Board of Directors. Brendan was acclaimed after the February 1st deadline passed with no further nominations. Brendan is a Music Therapist who has worked in a variety of health care settings in Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health. He currently works, and serves as a...

HSA members in Region 8 have elected Joan Magee to a fourth term as their representative to the HSA Board of Directors. Joan was acclaimed after the February 1st deadline passed with no further nominations. A Medical Laboratory Technologist at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake, Joan is a long-time HSA activist who served as an Occupational Health and Safety...

HSA members in Region 10 have once again elected Heather Sapergia as their representative to the HSA Board of Directors. Heather was acclaimed after the February 1st deadline passed with no further nominations. Heather works as a Medical Laboratory Technologist at the University Hospital of Northern BC (formerly Prince George Regional Hospital) where she previously served as Chief Steward for...

HSAs board of directors voted this week to recommend rejection of the tentative agreement reached last month in the Community Health Services and Support sector between the bargaining associations lead union, BCGEU, and the provincial government.The board agreed with HSAs negotiating team representing members in the sector that the agreement asks members to give up too many hard-won benefits. HSA...

HSA members will soon be preparing for the 2010 HSA Convention, to be held April 15, 16, & 17, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Conventions are the unions annual meeting where chapters from around the province determine the future direction of the union. Policies, actions, constitutional amendments, structural changes are all discussed and debated at convention. Members who have...

The next HSA Annual Convention will take place April 15-17, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver. All HSA members are welcome to attend and speak at the convention. However, only delegates have the right to vote. For chapters with 49 or fewer members, the HSA chief steward is the sole delegate. If the chief steward is not attending...