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BC Labour's initiative: the Working Opportunity Fund

January 1, 2002
The Report: January / February 2002 vol.23 num.1 by MAUREEN WHELAN Each year around this time, The Report features an advertisement for the Working Opportunity Fund (WOF) as members gear up to invest in their RRSPs. Some of you may wonder what’s the connection between HSA and WOF.

Music therapy: for heart and mind

January 1, 2002
The Report: January / February 2002 vol.23 num.1 by YUKIE KURAHASHI Wendy Watts was well on her way to becoming a concert pianist when she changed her mind. -I was training for a degree in music, but I had always wanted to be either a counsellor or social worker," she said. -So I thought music therapy was a good combination: using my music to help people."

Canadian Labour Congress backs HSA complaint against BC government's imposed health contract

December 20, 2001
Ken Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, is supporting complaints against the Government of British Columbia made by the Health Sciences Association of BC to the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the legislation passed in the summer that restricted health science professionals collective bargaining rights and imposed a two-tiered wage contract on the unions representing the 14,000 members.

Restructuring announcement a smokescreen for service cuts - HSA president Cindy Stewart says

December 12, 2001
Today's announcement of a massive restructuring of the system of health care governance in BC is a smokescreen for the Liberal government's real agenda for health care, Health Sciences Association of BC President Cindy Stewart said. "The health care system has been through structuring and restructuring for a decade. The centrepiece of our health care system cannot be process. It has to be patients," Stewart said.

Health care dealt double blow on federal budget day as BC health committee calls for user fees and higher premiums

December 10, 2001
Cindy Stewart, President of the Health Sciences Association of BC (HSA), said today's failure by the federal government to come through with financial support for health care, combined with recommendations from the provincial legislative standing committee on health paves the way for dramatic health care service cuts in British Columbia.

Contracts don't get in the way of service says health science professionals' union

December 5, 2001
Health Sciences Association President Cindy Stewart is calling on Health Services Minister Colin Hansen to take a closer look at problems with flexibility in the health care system. "The Minister of Health Services has said over and over again that inflexibility in the negotiated collective agreements is undermining the delivery of health care in BC. "That really is an astounding comment from a representative of the government that imposed a collective agreement on 14,000 health science professionals. It's his own government's contract," Stewart said.

Governments force growth of private health care, Health Sciences Association president charges

November 7, 2001
Cindy Stewart, President of the Health Sciences Association, says its no surprise that St. Pauls Hospital in Vancouver is delivering private medical services. "Its not surprising that after years of governments starving the public health care system ... starting with the federal government ... hospitals are looking for ways to increase revenue to be able to deliver the services the public health care system is mandated to deliver," she said.

How HSA members fight breast cancer, every day

November 1, 2001
The Report: November / December 2002 vol.23 num.5

Canada's public health care: fight for it or lose it, US doctor warns

November 1, 2001
The Report: November / December 2002 vol.23 num.5 by DAN KEETON f you dont fight to keep publicly-funded health care in Canada, youll lose it forever, Dr. Linda Peeno warns.

Material Safety Data Sheets available online

November 1, 2001
The Report: November / December 2002 vol.23 num.5

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