HSA members working throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley received notice last month of a region-wide plan to consolidate diagnostic imaging services in the Lower Mainland.

An important meeting to discuss how the consolidation plan may affect the jobs of HSA members working in diagnostic imaging throughout the region will be held for HSA members working at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, Langley Memorial Hospital, Mission Memorial Hospital, Fraser Canyon Hospital, and Chilliwack General Hospital as follows:

Public Forum:  Public Health Care: How can we afford it?

Date:
Friday, May 14

Time:
7:00 p.m.

Place:
Firefighter's Conference Centre
6515 Bonsor Street, Burnaby
(in the Metrotown complex)

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Iglika Ivanova, Economist and Public Interest Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on supporting innovation in the public health care system.

The BC Health Coalition is calling into question the provincial governments commitment to defend public health care in the courts in the wake of the recent appointment of Kip Woodward as chair of Vancouver Coastal Health ... the provinces second largest health authority.

Mr. Woodward is a former Board member of the for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre and his family investment firm, Woodcorp Investments Ltd., is an investor in the controversial private clinic run by Dr. Brian Day.

MEETING DATES ADDED

The Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine will host a national conference in Vancouver from May 13-15, 2010.

For details and registration information, see www.transfusion.ca

The Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine is a multidisciplinary society which promotes and supports the best practice in transfusion medicine in Canada through education, communication and partnerships.

Conference poster

On April 28 ... the National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job ...  HSA President Reid Johnson and the unions Board of Directors will place a wreath at a ceremony in downtown Vancouver.

All workers and their families are invited to pay tribute to workers who have been injured or killed on the job, or stricken with occupational disease.

May 2 - 8, 2010 is National Occupational Health and Safety Week. The attached information from Worksafe BC provides a listing of resource materials to assist in any promotions you may consider, in support of this week.

More information can be found at the WorkSafe BC website.

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Fight cuts to health and social services

Join HSA President Reid Johnson at a rally on Saturday April 10 to fight recent government cuts ... including cuts to arts and culture funding, seniors services, early childhood education and infant development, mental health and addictions services, supports for the disabled, and an array of social services.

The expiry of the 2006 ... 2010 Health Science Professionals collective agreement on March 31, 2010 was marked with continued discussion between the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association and Health Employers Association of BC about the principles that will be used for a thoughtful discussion in negotiating a collective agreement that protects quality health care and values the work of health science professionals.

The Coalition to Build a Better BC will hold a rally April 10 to fight recent government cuts ... including cuts to arts and culture funding, seniors services, early childhood education and infant development, mental health and addictions services, supports for the disabled, and an array of social services.