Events

Date: Wednesday, July 8 Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Sassafras CafeteriaJim Pattison Pavilion, 2nd Floor Printer-friendly poster & more information.

Members of United Food and Commercial Workers 1518 have been on strike since December, 2008 over wages and benefits. Join the members at a New Westminster and District Labour Council-organized Pancake Breakfast Rally to show your support. Date: Saturday, June 20 Time: 10 a.m. to noon Place: Extra Foods, corner of Dewdney Trunk Road and 224th in Maple Ridge Download...

At a national conference this weekend, the Canadian Association of Labour Media awarded its highest honour to The Report, the magazine for HSA members. The Report won "Best Overall Publication" demonstrating the best combined use of writing, graphics, design, and editorial content and judgement. The category includes all local, provincial, and national union publications produced by staff, including federations of...

The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is calling on the Canadian government to appoint special prosecutors to step up enforcement of laws to protect workers on the job. In conjunction with observances marking the 25th National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job in Canada, NUPGE president James Clancy has written to Rob...

April 28th, 2009 marks the 25th Anniversary of the Day of Mourning. Held in 100 countries around the world, it is a day to reflect on the terrible toll of workers killed and injured on the job. Last year, 160 workers in BC were killed or died as the result of an occupational disease. Since 2002, workplace fatalities and serious...

HSA President Reid Johnson will join with BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair and HEU members in a rally and march to support hospital housekeepers currently in contract discussions with their employers Aramark, Sodexo and Compass. HSA members are invited to demonstrate their support at the rally and march as follows: Date: Thursday, April 9th Time: 4 p.m....

The Vancouver & District Labour Council Education Committeeand the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives present a public forum and conference on the economic crisis in BC. The public forum, Economics for Everyone, will be held Friday Jan. 30 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver. Featured speaker is Jim Stanford, Canadian Auto Workers'...

Employees at 10 Metro Vancouver locations of CML Healthcare, a private medical imaging and laboratory company with locations across Canada, have voted to join the Health Sciences Association of BC. The 120 employees join HSA members working at 12 CML facilities in Metro Vancouver and on Vancouver Island.-Employees at these CML locations came to HSA looking for support to ensure...

Thenext HSA Annual Convention will take place April 23-25, 2008 at the FairmontHotel Vancouver in Vancouver. AllHSA members are welcome to attend and speak at the convention. However, only delegates have the right tovote.Forchapters with 49 or fewer members, the HSA chief steward is the soledelegate. If the chief steward is notattending convention, an alternate should be identified. Chapters with...

HSA members will soon be preparing for the 2009 HSA Convention, to be held April 23, 24, & 25, 2009 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Conventions are where chapters from around the province determine the future direction of the union. Policies, actions, constitutional amendments, structural changes are all discussed and debated at convention. Members who have specific issues that they...