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HSA President Reid Johnson and Region 7 Regional Director Marg Beddis joined in the Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job by laying a wreath at Bear Creek Park in Surrey Saturday. New Westminster & District Labour Council in conjunction with the Vancouver & District Labour Council, Fraser Valley Labour Council and BC Federation of Labour...

It's a fact - improving public health care is within our means. Find out how. Castlegar and District Health Watch and the BC Health Coalition invite you to a West Kootenay Public Solutions Forum. Thursday, May 247:00 p.m.Castlegar & District Community Recreation Centre2101 6th Avenue Speaker: Dr. Robert Woolard, Canadian Doctors for Medicine Printer-friendly poster.

Concerned about health and safety issues at your workplace? Sign up to receive the OHSAH (Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare in BC) e-update. The current (April 2007) issues includes articles about Latex vs Non-Latex Gloves; Concern over Caviwipes, Pandemic Influenza Update, Technological Innovations in Occupational Health, and Day of Mourning events. The Health and Safety e-Update is a...

B.C.'s lowest paid workers need your help. The B.C. Federation of Labour is campaigning to boost the provincial minimum wage to $10 an hour and eliminate the $6 training rate for new workers. The Campbell government has frozen the minimum at $8 since 2001. Six years without a raise is too long. Thats why the BCFed is calling for an...

The Canadian Labour Congress is marking this years National Day of Mourning with a renewed call for governments to step-up enforcement of federal, provincial and territorial health and safety laws. Next Saturday, April 28, the labour movement will acknowledge and honour those men and women who died or were injured on the job over the past year due to workplace...

The public is still in the dark about why the Fraser Health Authority (FHA) is using a public-private partnership (P3) for the financing, construction and operation of the Surrey Ambulatory Care Facility despite initially opposing this approach. Key information related to the decision was deleted from 35 pages of heavily censored documents released to the BC Health Coalition under freedom...

HSA is calling for nominations for the position of Regional Director for Region 5 following the election of Reid Johnson as HSA President at the 36th annual convention held this past weekend. Johnson was first elected as Region 5 Director in 1997 and was re-elected for another term this spring. The new Region 5 Director will serve the remainder of...

This year the BC Federation of Labour Occupational Health and Safety theme is "Make it Safe! Make it Fair!" Changes to the OH&S Regulations under the Workers Compensation Act have affected the safety of workers and we have witnessed too many workers being injured and killed due to a lack of enforcement and meaningful regulations. As the number of workers...

Help us put the "heart" back in Medicare at a Rally in Richmond! Date: Saturday, April 14, 2007Place: DELTA VANCOUVER AIRPORT INN 3500 Cessna Drive, RichmondTime: 8:00 a.m. Printer-friendly poster with more details.

HSAs Committee for Equality and Social Action is hosting an evening with community organizer and activist Santiago Diaz on Wednesday, April 18, at 7 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Diaz is the coordinator of APSIES, the Salvadoran Association for Integrated Health and Social Services, which has been a southern partner of HSA for over 15 years. APSIES was founded...