Health Science Professionals

At the end of August, the Interior Health Authority revealed it planned to implement a major reorganization of laboratory services in the region. The plans will be shared with IHA staff over the next two weeks at meetings where laboratory managers will introduce staff to the employers planned changes. HSA stewards will be attending these meetings to observe and, where...

HSA President Reid Johnson is not optimistic about media reports for a -new government mandate" for collective bargaining in 2012 after yesterdays Throne Speech from the BC government. -The government clearly signaled yesterday that its prepared to pay lip service to the women and men who deliver the public services, like health care, that British Columbians depend on. But there...

The 2010-2012 HSPBA collective agreement includes a Letter of Agreement ... Re: Professional Development Fund ... which provides for a $450,000 Professional Development Fund for use by all HSPBA members, including members represented by unions other than HSA, over the term of the collective agreement. The amount available to HSA members covered by the HSPBA contract is approximately $450,000, which...

A new HSA TV ad will reach people living in every community in the province over the next month. The new ad, launched this week, will be run alongside the memorable HSA TV ad debuted last fall.-Were building on the success of last years TV campaign," said HSA President Reid Johnson. -For the first time in our history, HSA is...

The Report: September 2011 vol.32 num.3 NADIA GALE AND HER COLLEAGUES SEE THE PERSON BEHIND THE TISSUE SAMPLE WHEN LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST Nadia Gale heard shed won the Medical Technologist/ Technician Award for Continued Professional Development, conferred by the Canadian Association of Pathologists this spring, she was of course thrilled ... not just for herself, but for all laboratory technologists. -I...

The Health Sciences Association has learned that Interior Health Authority is planning a major reorganization of laboratory services in the region, and is condemning the Authoritys failure to consult the union when members jobs and service to patients are to be affected. August 25, HSA learned that Interior Health Authority plans to reorganize laboratory services and that supervisory duties will...

Members concerned about requirements for on call and call back work are encouraged to participate in a series of meetings in the Lower Mainland hosted by HSA over the next few weeks. Many health science professionals have expressed concern that they have dangerously little rest between shifts because they are required to be on call and work call-backs. As part...

Members iin the Lower Mainland who are concerned about requirements for on call and call back work are encouraged to participate in discipline-specific conference calls starting tonight, Monday Augus 22 at 7 p.m., for members who work in CT. Call in numbers Toll free 1.877.385.4099 Local 604.899.2339 Participant access code 58180 Conference calls for other disciplines are scheduled as follows...

The Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association and the Fraser Health Authority will soon begin discussions towards moving to a single seniority list for all health science professionals in the Fraser Health Authority. HSA Membership Services Coordinator Dawn Adamson said there will be many steps in the consolidation process. -The amalgamation of certifications ... resulting in a single seniority list...

Health Sciences Association is conducting a random survey of members who work on call or experience call-back. The on line survey, which is being conducted by Viewpoints Research, will sample the views of several hundred HSA members around the province over the next three weeks. The survey is the result of concerns, raised by the membership, that being required to...