News & Updates

The Report: April / May 2006 vol.27 num.2 by CINDY STEWART his year at our annual convention we will be marking HSAs 35th year as a union. In 1971, a handful of health professionals formed an association and gained bargaining rights for health science professionals in hospitals. Now, 35 years later, 14,000 HSA members are concluding a complex set of...

Tentative agreements were reached today at both the Nurses and Community Social Services tables. More details will be provided in the coming days.

The Union Bargaining Association (UBA) is calling on BC finance minister Carole Taylor to take immediate steps to address the "negotiating ineptitude" of the employers, and to assure community social services workers that any final agreement they are offered is comparable to what other public sector workers have received to date. Download full PDF version here

We are working day and night to conclude a fair and equitable tentative agreement by Friday, March 31.

Bargaining for a new Provincial Collective Agreement continued this week with negotiators for the Nurses' Bargaining Association and the Health Employers' Association exchanging proposals on a number of issues. Download full PDF version here

B.C.s 13,000 workers covered by Community Health collective agreement have a tentative agreement for a new contract that includes pay increases, stronger employment security and contracting out protections, and measures to improve health and safety. -This is a good, solid settlement that meets the priorities set by community health workers," says George Heyman, president of the B.C. Government and Service...

With contract ratification meetings being scheduled for next week, the week of March 27, HSA has produced a comprehensive Report to Members on the Proposed Terms of Settlement. The booklet is available for download here. All members are encouraged to review the detailed summary of the proposed collective agreement. Booklets will also be available at the ratification vote meetings being...

Ratification vote meetings are being held throughout the province the week of March 27, 2006. Click here for schedule - updated March 30

Bargaining has now resumed. Your Union Bargaining Association (UBA) remains hopeful that we can bring negotiations to a satisfactory resolution by the March 31 deadline. Download full version as PDF

Contract talks for community health workers went late into the night Tuesday, but negotiators for the multi-union community health bargaining association ran into a significant hurdle in our efforts to limit the number of jobs employers can contract out over the life of the agreement. As a result, talks adjourned in an effort to give both sides the chance to...