Union Elections and Meetings
Due to the current lock-out by Canada Post of Canadian Union of Postal Workers members, HSA is extending the deadline for Region 8 members to return their mail-in ballots to elect a new Region 8 Director.Wednesday, June 29 was the original deadline for HSA to receive ballots. Canada Post discontinued all regular mail delivery, and ceased accepting any new mail...
Four candidates have been nominated to run for Regional Director in Region 8. A by-election was called following the resignation of Joan Magee as Region 8 Director. The new Director will serve the remainder of Magees 2-year term, ending at the conclusion of HSAs 2012 convention. The 4 candidates seeking election are: Cherylee Hale, Cardiology Technologist at Kelowna General Hospital...
Val Avery -- a physiotherapist at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria -- has been re-elected by the HSA board of directors to serve as the unions vice-president. Avery is the unions regional director for Region 2. The vice-president assumes the duties of the president at the presidents request or in the presidents absence and chairs the unions resolutions committee. This...
HSA is calling for nominations for the position of Regional Director for Region 8, following the resignation of Joan Magee. Magee has served on the unions board of directors since 2004. The new Regional Director will serve the remainder of the two-year term, which ends at the conclusion of HSAs 2012 annual convention. The unions Board of Directors meets every...
Delegates to the 40th annual convention of the Health Sciences Association of BC have returned Reid Johnson as president of the 17,000-strong union of health science professionals working in hospitals and communities throughout BC. Johnson has been President of the Health Sciences Association of BC since April 2007. The union represents more than 17,000 health science professionals in the public...
HSA members in Region 5 have elected Kimball Finigan to a third term as their representative on the unions Board of Directors. Kimball is a radiation therapist at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver. The other candidate for election was Ramzan Anjum, a medical laboratory technologist at BC Childrens Hospital. During the first year of his current term on the...
HSA members in Region 7 have re-elected Marg Beddis to a third term as their representative on the unions Board of Directors. Marg is a dietitian at Surrey Memorial Hospital. The other candidate for election was Brent Jeklin, a medical radiation technologist at Langley Memorial Hospital. During the first year of her current term on the Board, Marg sat on...
HSA members in Region 9 have re-elected Janice Morrison to a second term as their representative on the HSA Board of Directors. Janice is a physiotherapist at Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson.The other candidate for election was Jackie Spain, a medical laboratory technologist at Golden & District Hospital.During the first year of her current term on the Board, Janice sat...
ELECTION OF REGIONAL DIRECTORSElections for Directors in Regions 5, 7 and 9 are currently underway. Voting packages, including information about candidates, have been mailed to members in these three Regions. Candidate statements have also been posted in the -HSA Elections 2011" section of the unions website. Members who are planning to vote in Regions 5, 7 and 9 are reminded...