Prior to adjournment of the HSA Annual Convention on June 4, 2021, delegates referred a number of resolutions to the Board of Directors for consideration at the board’s first regular meeting following convention, which was held June 23 and 24.
Delegates to HSA’s 50th annual convention have elected Kane Tse, an Assistant Bioinformatics Coordinator at Vancouver Cancer Centre, to serve as President.
“We have a lot of things to accomplish in front of us,” Tse told delegates. “Some of them are going to be challenging, some are going to be rewarding. But we’re going to get through them together, and most importantly, they’re going to be ours to celebrate.”
Five union members are running to replace outgoing president Val Avery at HSA’s annual convention on June 2 - 4, and they answered questions from members around the province during a telephone town hall on the evening of March 25, 2021.
Five union members are running to replace outgoing president Val Avery at HSA’s annual convention on June 2 - 4, and they’ll be taking questions from members around the province at a telephone town hall set for Tuesday, May 25 from 7:00 to 8:30.
As part of the union’s complaints and dispute resolution process provided under HSA’s constitution, each year the union establishes a Trial Committee, with election of the members of the committee held at the union’s annual convention, scheduled June 2-4, 2021.
Any member may forward their name as a candidate for election to the Trial Committee. Members do not have to be a delegate to convention to run for election, however, only delegates elected to the convention may vote on the membership of the Trial Committee.
The next meeting of the BIPOC Caucus will be held on Thursday, April 29, 2021 from 6 to 8pm. This invitation is open to all members identifying as Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (BIPOC).
With HSA's Annual Convention coming in June, we will use our BIPOC meeting to:
1. Review resolutions related to BIPOC issues
2. Define goals and objectives on what BIPOC needs
3. Create plans of action to accomplish the above goals
HSA members have elected Janice Morrison to serve a two-year term on the union’s board of directors representing Region 9, which includes worksites in the Kootenays.
HSA members have elected Jill Slind to serve a two-year term on the union’s board of directors representing Region 5, which includes a number of worksites in the Lower Mainland including BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital and the Vancouver Cancer Centre.
Becky Packer has been re-elected to serve a two-year term as a member of HSA’s Board of Directors, representing HSA members in Region1 from worksites in Nanaimo and north on Vancouver Island.
A physiotherapist at Cumberland Health Centre, she has been active in the union since 2008, and was first elected to the Board of Directors in 2019. She has served as secretary-treasurer since 2020, and as chair of the union’s Climate Action Working Group.
The voting period in the 2021 HSA Regional Director elections to elect members of the union’s Board of Directors closes this Friday, April 23 at 8 p.m.
If you have misplaced your voting credentials, or didn’t receive an email with your voting credentials, please send an email to msobrino@hsabc.org to ensure the online election provider, Simply Voting, can send your electronic ballot and voting credentials in time to vote.
