News & Updates

Ensuring the safety of patients in BCs health care facilities is the priority for nurses, as they began bargaining this week for a new contract with the provinces health authorities. HSAs Registered Psychiatric Nurses are represented by Lions Gate RPN Val Barker and Senior Labour Relations Officer Pat Blomme. HSA President Reid Johnson said psychiatric nurses want to ensure they...

Health Sciences Association (HSA), on behalf of the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association, called on the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) in a meeting today to rescind the notice it gave earlier this month that it plans to roll back hospital pharmacists wages by as much as $12,000 a year. Jeanne Meyers, HSAs executive director of legal services and...

HSA is offering the following 2-day OH&S steward training workshops at the HSA office: Basic OH&S Steward Training dates: Registration closes: February 13 & 14, 2012 February 3, 2012 March 26 & 27, 2012 March 5, 2012 Occupational health and safety issues are very important to HSA members, and OH&S stewards play a vital role in promoting a safe work...

The United Steelworkers (USW) announced this week the launch of a fundraising campaign and the creation of a trust account to provide support to the workers of Babine Forest Products and their families in the wake of an explosion at the Burns Lake, B.C. sawmill. The tragedy in Burns Lake has affected the whole community, including the many HSA members...

Lower Mainland pharmacists being consolidated and transferred to Fraser Health Authority in early March, and who are not currently employed by Fraser Health Authority, you are asked to NOT provide the transfer forms FHA has sent you, with a deadline for return of January 27. While it is not necessary to complete the transfer package, you are required to provide...

In order to comply with a requirement to provideemployees transferring to Fraser Health Authority under the Lower Mainlandpharmacy consolidation, HSPBA, the bargaining association that representshospital pharmacists facing a 9 ... 14 per cent wage rollback, has developed aform for pharmacists to provide to Fraser Health Authority. Download the form here

Representatives of the Provincial Nurses Bargaining Association ... including Registered Psychiatric Nurses represented by HSA ... are heading to the bargaining table this week. The constituent unions are meeting today. Bargaining with the employer begins January 24-25. More bargaining dates are set February 20-24. RPN & Lions Gate Hospital Chief Steward Val Barker will represent HSA RPNs, along with Senior...

Prince George Citizen TheNorthern Health Authority has a prescription to cure potential labour unrest atUniversity Hospital of Northern B.C. Theorganization is refusing to accept a provincial push to reduce the wages of itshospital pharmacists. TheHealth Employers Association of B.C. recently requested that health authoritiesend a temporary eight to 13 per cent increase in hospital pharmacists wagesthat was adopted in 2006...

This memo is available for download here.

You are invited to attend the following meetings. HSA labour relations staff will be available to answer your questions regarding the consolidation of Biomedical Engineering Technology services in the Lower Mainland. For HSA members in Fraser Health Authority Tuesday, January 24 7:00 - 9:00 pm Compass Point Inn - East Fraser Room 9850 King George Hwy, Surrey, BC (near King...