Join the National Day of Action June 29, 2007 in a march and rally.
March: 11 a.m. - Vanier Park to Library Square (begin assembling at 9:30 a.m. at the Coast Guard station by the Burrard Street Bridge.)
Rally: 12 noon at Library Square (300 West Georgia)
Elders, families and drivers are encouraged to follow the march as a caravan of vehicles. Paid parking is available in and around Libary Square.
HSA is celebrating 10 years of participating in the CIBC Run for the Cure, the most important fundraiser for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
Visit the CIBC Run for the Cure to register today and join the HSA team.
For information, email webmaster@hsabc.org.
Health Sciences Association of B.C. is pleased to welcome new members, employees of CML HeatlhCare, to the union of caring professionals.
HSA has represented staff at CML HealthCare, a private company that provides medical diagnostic imaging services to the public, in Victoria since 2003. Employees at four additional CML HealthCare clinics in Victoria and the Lower Mainland voted to join the union early this year, but the results of the vote were not known until yesterday.
HSA President Reid Johnson responds to a Vancouver Sun report suggesting that the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on Bill 29 means less flexibility and more privatization.
In time for the posting of several new positions at the new Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (ARHCC), set to open in September 2008, HSA and the Fraser Health Authority recently concluded negotiations to amend the Dovetailed Seniority List Agreement (DSLA) in the FHA. Prior to this agreement, there were two different lists for the FHA, one for Fraser Valley Health Services Delivery Area and one for Simon and South Fraser Health Service Delivery Areas.
Meeting of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
Thursday, June 28
7:00 p.m.
BCGEU HQ Auditorium
4911 Canada Way, Burnaby
Harmonization of Canada and Mexico with USA monetarily, militarily, and in other areas of administration including health care and labour standards.
Are you ready for it? Is this what you want?
Why is the Harper Government keeping quiet about SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement), a process of deeper integration with the USA, which is quietly going ahead while you sleep?
Jack Layton has demanded debate on this Agreement since February (and been refused).
HSA members are welcome to a service Wednesday, June 20 to remember HSA activist Colya Kaminiarz. Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 from 2:45 to 4:15 p.m. at Vancouver General Hospital, Jim Pattison Pavilion 1st floor, Paetzold Meeting Rooms 1 and 2, 855 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver
Suzanne Bennett, regional director for HSA Region 1, has been elected by the HSA Board of Directors to serve as the unions vice-president.. The vice-president assumes the duties of the president at the presidents request or in the presidents absence and chairs the unions resolutions committee.
The Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark decision today, declaring sections of Bill 29 unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ruled that sections of the Bill amounted to -substantial interference with the unions ability to engage in collective bargaining." In the ruling, the Court throws out sections of Bill 29 and gives the provincial government 12 months to rectify the violations.
HSA President Reid Johnson says the decision is a clear win for health workers across British Columbia.
