Your elected HSA representatives and staff have been hard at work since the union's 45th convention in May. The upcoming regional meetings will be a good opportunity to provide updates on that work, and a chance for stewards and other activists to connect and discuss the issues in your region.
In preparation for those meetings, please take a few minutes to review some of the important work HSA has been involved in.
Last month over 50 RPNs from around BC came together for the RPN Summit on Workplace Violence at the HSA Head Office.
Today, we’re releasing a video featuring HSA RPN members as they share their experiences with violence in the workplace.
Edith MacHattie, HSA member and Co-Chair of the BC Health Care Coalition participates on a panel on women's activism in unions being presented by the Burnaby Teachers' Association Ad Hoc Labour Outreach Committee Saturday, January 24 from 4 to 7 p.m.
HSA members are encouraged to take advantage of 3 opportunities to hear Dr. Danielle Martin speak in Vancouver this week.
I am deeply honoured to have been elected your president at HSA's 43rd convention in April.
I've been a member of this union for 31 years, and I've served at every level – as an activist, steward, a committee member, a director on the board, as vice-president and most recently as president, appointed under the constitution when Reid Johnson decided to move on last fall.
Over 300 delegates from around the province gathered in April to vote overwhelmingly in favour of continuing the fight to defend public health care, the work of the Committee on Equality and Social Action, and to work to protect and improve services for patients and clients who count on the health care and community social services HSA members deliver.
On May 1st, a group of 20 HSA members from around the province and from a range of professions spent the day in Victoria.
HSA and its members played a big role in a recent event hosted by the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC.
