News & Updates
Edith MacHattie, Occupational Therapist
December 1, 2013
HSA REPORT, DECEMBER 2013
BY LAURA BUSHEIKIN
By any standards, Edith MacHattie's job is immensely challenging.
The school-aged children she works with as an Occupational Therapist at Surrey's Centre for Child Development are the most medically complex kids.
Wages and benefits top list of priorities for HSA’s registered psychiatric nurses
November 29, 2013
HSA members gathered in Richmond last week to consider HSA members’ priorities for the Nurses Bargaining Association. Wages and benefits are the priorities for HSA’s more than 1,400 registered psychiatric nurses who work under the Nurses Bargaining Association collective agreement.
Members called for a fix to the Pharmacare Tie-in implement in the 2012-2014 contract, as well as for improved wages and classification specialization that recognizes registered psychiatric nurses’ unique contribution to the modern health care team.
Wages and benefits top list of priorities for HSA members who work in community social services
November 29, 2013
HSA members gathered in Richmond last week to discuss HSA members’ priorities for bargaining in the Community Social Services sector.
Delegates to the bargaining proposal conference reviewed the bargaining proposals submitted by members through chapter meetings around the province. Improved wages and benefits are the priorities for HSA’s almost 800 members who work under the Community Social Services Bargaining Association collective agreement.
Wages and benefits top list of priorities for HSA members who work in community health
November 29, 2013
HSA members gathered in Richmond last week to consider HSA members’ priorities for bargaining in the Community Health sector. Wages and benefits are the priorities for HSA’s more than 700 members who work under the Community Bargaining Association collective agreement.
Join the telephone town hall on HSPBA agreement Thursday
November 29, 2013
HSA will hold a telephone town hall meeting on Thursday, December 5, to update members on the tentative agreement reached earlier this month.
The phone call is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. PST and will last an hour. You will have an opportunity to hear from your negotiators and ask and hear questions and answers about the contract.
It's easy. You just have to be at home at 7 p.m., and you will be connected to the call.
Expedited process to be developed to address 37.5-hour work week grievances
November 28, 2013
With more than 1,000 grievances over the implementation of the 37.5 hour work week last year, HSPBA and HEABC have agreed to give jurisdiction to arbitrator Vince Ready to design and arbitrate a process to expedite the grievances.
A case management meeting will be scheduled early in the new year, and it is anticipated that hearings will begin shortly thereafter.
John Christopherson elected HSA Region 5 Director
November 28, 2013
John Christopherson has been elected as the Regional Director to represent members from Region 5 on the HSA Board of Directors.
Christopherson is a counsellor at the Vancouver Cancer Centre. He has served as an assistant chief steward, as a Constituency Liaison, and as a Member-at-Large and on many union committees, including most recently the Occupational Health and Safety Committee. He also served on the HSPBA Bargaining Committee in 2010.
The term expires at the end of the 2015 HSA Convention in Vancouver.
End the raid: Revoke your UPN or BCNU membership card today
November 27, 2013
Registered psychiatric nurses represented by HSA have a lot of questions about pressure tactics currently employed by the BC Nurses Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses. Both BCNU and UPN have recently pressured members already represented by HSA, and we've been getting questions about whether it's possible to cancel these memberships.
The deadline is now
Health science members vote on new tentative agreement
November 26, 2013
HSA REPORT, DECEMBER 2013
In late November, the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association reached a tentative agreement for the 17,000 health science professionals delivering modern health care in BC's hospitals and communities.
Information meetings on HSPBA tentative agreement
November 26, 2013
All HSA members covered by the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association will shortly receive an information package, ballot, and instructions for how to vote by mail.
In the meantime, HSA is organizing a series of information meetings.
Upcoming information meetings
More meetings are being planned; check this site for updates.