HSA is offering scholarships and bursaries to all members and their children. We will be awarding ten scholarships for full-time studies, twenty bursaries for full-time studies and two aboriginal scholarships.
The criteria and details are set out on the application forms. To obtain a copy please see the HSA website or click here.
Employees at 10 Metro Vancouver locations of CML Healthcare, a private medical imaging and laboratory company with locations across Canada, have voted to join the Health Sciences Association of BC. The 120 employees join HSA members working at 12 CML facilities in Metro Vancouver and on Vancouver Island.
The following article is reprinted from the WorkSafe BC WorkSafe Magazine. HSA is actively involved in the provincial anti-violence committee, and is a partner in an anti-violence awareness campaign launched in Campbell River to reach communities in the Vancouver Island Health Authority region.
By Helena Bryan
Partnership working to protect nurses and other health care workers
Are you a woman considering either running for elected office, or working in a key position in a future election campaign? If so, then the annual Canadian Women Voters Congress Womens Campaign School is for you.
Dates: March 27-29, 2009
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
HSAs 2009 Annual Convention will include an election for the position of President, a full-time position that carries a two-year term.
All members in good standing are eligible to run for President when nominated in writing by six members.
Nominations for President are open until the final call for nominations takes place on the last day of convention Saturday, April 25, 2009.
This year, Regional Director elections will take place in Regions 1, 3, 5, 7, & 9. All HSA members in these regions are encouraged to put their name forward for these important positions.
Directors meet, on average, every six weeks and take an active leadership role in representing the union. They will receive wage replacement for the time they spend in official meetings at their own regular rate of pay. Part-time and casual members are reimbursed as if they were at work during the meetings they attend.
HSA members will soon be preparing for the 2009 HSA Convention, to be held April 23, 24, & 25, 2009 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
Conventions are 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.
Thenext HSA Annual Convention will take place April 23-25, 2008 at the FairmontHotel Vancouver in Vancouver.
AllHSA members are welcome to attend and speak at the convention. However, only delegates have the right tovote.
Forchapters with 49 or fewer members, the HSA chief steward is the soledelegate. If the chief steward is notattending convention, an alternate should be identified. Chapters with more than 49 members areentitled to one additional delegate for each additional 50 members or portionthereof.
HSA, HEU and BCNU chapters at Vancouver Hospital are hosting a holiday season open house and invite all to enjoy holiday treats and camaraderie.
Date: Thursday, December 18 Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Place: Ground Floor, Room 100A
865 West 10th Avenue
Everyone welcome.
Solidarity is more than making donations. Personal contact and relationships between people from the north and the south can be as important as money.
In partnership with CoDevelopment Canada, HSA has supported the Honduran women workers organization CODEMUH, and the Salvadoran Association for Integrated Health and Social Services (APSIES) in Central America. In March 2009, a tour will visit both projects and provide opportunities to do some rural community health work.
