News & Updates
Growing up on the picket lines
June 18, 2015
HSA REPORT MAGAZINE, JUNE 2015
Val Avery was re-elected president of HSA by delegates attending convention in May. In her remarks just prior to balloting, she spoke of how er roots in the labour movement fuel her determination to fight for the future of HSA members. The full text of her speech follows.
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Time for a better choice
June 16, 2015
HSA REPORT MAGAZINE, JUNE 2015
BY CAROL RIVIERE
The upcoming federal election is an opportunity for all of us to take a stand on issues that matter.
Issues like child care, good jobs, retirement security, and health care matter to Canadians, and in this election voters have a chance to make a better choice.
Stasia Hasumi, crisis intervention support worker
June 16, 2015
HSA REPORT MAGAZINE, JUNE 2015
BY LAURA BUSHEIKIN
Stasia Hasumi, a Crisis Intervention Support Worker at the Comox Valley Transition Society, has plenty of high-stress moments at work.
As a front-line worker at a 12-bed transition house for women and children, she needs to respond moment-by-moment to the needs of women facing danger, trauma and severely disrupted lives.
2015 Bland award honours sonographers
June 15, 2015
HSA REPORT MAGAZINE, JUNE 2015
HSA member David Bland was a vocational counsellor who worked at Richmond Mental Health Services. At the end of an otherwise ordinary work day in January of 2005, as David left his workplace, a former client was waiting in the parking lot – and fatally stabbed David. To honour his memory, the union established the David Bland Memorial Award in 2007 to honour the important work that members undertake as advocates for their colleagues in ensuring we all work in a safe environment.
Unique but united: HSA Convention 2015
June 14, 2015
HSA REPORT MAGAZINE, JUNE 2015
Acknowleding the diversity of HSA members and the issues they care about, HSA President Val Avery opened the convention with a report on how the board of directors, committees and activists must daily strive to balance demands and goals.
Patient transfer drivers reach tentative agreement on first contract
June 12, 2015
With the assistance of mediator Vince Ready, CUPE 873-03 and SN Transport have agreed to terms for a tentative agreement.
Details of the first collective agreement for the local, reached last night after one session of mediated talks that began yesterday, will be disclosed to members at a ratification meeting scheduled for Tuesday (June 16).
EDMP program expanding for members at affiliate employers
June 4, 2015
Following the successful launch of the pilot project in April, the Enhanced Disability Management Program for affiliate employers is expanding once again.
EDMP, which is already supporting thousands of HSA members working in health authorities, has a proven track record of helping members who are absent from work due either to a work-related or non-work related illness or injury, or when they are struggling at work.
NUPGE statement on the Truth and Reconciliation Report
June 3, 2015
"It is only through action that our nation will be able to truly move beyond this shame." — James Clancy, NUPGE National President
Health Care Campaign Workshops - North Island & Powell River
June 3, 2015
HSA members are invited toattend one of five free, hands-on election workshops taking place between June 24-30 on the
Patient transfer services union serves 72-hour strike notice; pickets lines possible at Metro Vancouver hospitals
May 29, 2015
VANCOUVER – CUPE 873-03 served 72-hour strike notice to SN Transport yesterday after attempts to reach a first collective agreement failed. The union represents 115 workers who provide patient transfer services in the Lower Mainland. “From the moment this group of workers joined CUPE and we started bargaining their first agreement, the employer has resisted and used foot dragging tactics,” said CUPE National Representative John Strohmaier. “No-one likes to go on strike, but this employer has done nothing to reach a fair first collective agreement but put up obstacles.”