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The multi-union bargaining committee for community social service workers presented its monetary proposals to the employer during the latest week of bargaining, including wage and benefit demandsThe employer will table their wage and benefit proposals and respond to unions when bargaining resumes the week of June 4.Union representatives have made it clear that Community Social Service workers deserve a fair...

WHAT IS THE HSA CONTRACT? Collective agreements that govern the working conditions and compensation for HSA members working in the public sector expired on March 31, 2011. The union is working now on behalf of HSA members to negotiate new collective agreements. Until new collective agreements are reached, the terms and conditions of the expired agreements continue. In the public...

Negotiations continue at the Health Science Professionals, Nursing, Community Health, and Community Social Services bargaining tables, but there is limited progress to report. Jeanne Meyers, Chief Negotiator for the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association and HSAs executive director of legal and labour relations, said all four bargaining tables in the health and community social services sectors report slow negotiations. In...

AIDS Vancouver has announced details for this years International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, one of the worlds oldest and largest grassroots mobilization campaigns for HIV awareness in the world. Date: Sunday May 20th, 8 PM Place: Alexandra Park, 1755 Beach Avenue (at Bidwell) Started in 1983, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial takes place every third Sunday in May and is led...

Community Social Services bargaining resumed for the week of April 30, with limited progress. The union bargaining committee ... the Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) ... is continuing to make the case for a fair and reasonable deal at the bargaining table, including a wage increase. The committee is also pushing back on concessionary demands by the employer.The multi-union...

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The Community Bargaining Association (CBA) met this week in Vancouver to exchange and discuss proposals with the Health Employers Association of British Columbia (HEABC). The parties discussed issues and exchanged amendments to previously tabled proposals. The CBA tabled counter proposals related to union rights. HEABC tabled a health and safety proposal and provided the CBA bargaining committee with a presentation...

During two weeks of bargaining for a new provincial contract (April 16-27), negotiators for the Nurses Bargaining Association and Health Employers Association of BC debated three key issues without coming to a resolution.Negotiators will pick up discussions when bargaining resumes next month. The issues debated are:1. Health authority-wide seniority will improve nurses mobility and ensure nurses can maximize the value...

Most people think International Health and Safety Day was started by a government or maybe the United Nations. Not so. It was started by a little health and safety committee in Canada in 1984. Observance of the day has spread to more than 60 countries. RadioLabour has prepared a special programme about International Health and Safety Day. It features an...

Vancouver - May 1: The celebration will run through the afternoon and evening. 1 p.m. Live perofrmances at Hornby and Georgia 3 p.m. Rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery 4 p.m. Speakers and performances 6 p.m. Jim Sinclair, President, and Irene Lanzinger, Secretary Treasurer, from the BC Federation of Labour 6:15 p.m. March from the Art Galley to W2 7:30...