News & Updates
Community Health Services & Support: Members to begin negotiations
January 17, 2012
Representatives of HSAs Community Health Services & Support workers are set to begin talks with the employer January 23.
Delegates to a bargaining proposal meeting in October put wages and benefits at the top of the priority list. Members also directed their representatives to the bargaining table to seek improvements in vacation, anti-bullying language, job security, mileage rates and support for a transit subsidy, and professional development and education.
Public Health Care Advocates to Premiers: Now is the Time for Leadership to Renew and Strengthen Medicare
January 17, 2012
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 16, 2012) - Council of the Federation meeting on health sustainability is an opportunity for premiers to address growing out-of-pocket health care spending on for-profit care and demand federal funding commitment to a renewed health accord.
Public health care advocates and allies from across Canada are calling on premiers to work together to address health spending cost drivers while they meet in Victoria over the next two days.
Pharmacists get wage cuts
January 13, 2012
Nanaimo Daily News
BC pharmacists face big wage cut
January 13, 2012
Times Colonist
Government hands wage cut to BC hospital pharmacists
January 13, 2012
The Vancouver Sun
HEABC announces plan to roll back pharmacist wages by up to 14 per cent
January 9, 2012
HEABC served notice last week that it plans to eliminate a market adjustment for pharmacists effective April 1, 2012.
The market adjustment, introduced to address chronic issues of recruitment and retention, has effectively stemmed the flow of pharmacists away from hospitals in British Columbia since 2006.
-HEABCs notice to cut pharmacists wages by 9 to 14 per cent is short-sighted and ill considered," said Jeanne Meyers, HSAs Executive Director of Legal Services and Labour Relations.
41st Annual HSA Convention to be held April 19 - 21, 2012 in Vancouver
January 6, 2012
The next HSA Annual Convention will take place April 19-21, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver.
All HSA members are welcome to attend and speak at the convention. However, only delegates have the right to vote.
For chapters with 49 or fewer members, the HSA chief steward is the sole delegate. If the chief steward is not attending convention, an alternate should be identified. Chapters with more than 49 members are entitled to one additional delegate for each additional 50 members or portion thereof.
...Therefore be it resolved
January 3, 2012
HSA members will soon be preparing for the 2012 HSA Convention, to be held April 19, 20, and 21, 2012 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver.
Conventions are the unions annual meeting where chapters from around the province determine the future direction of the union. Policies, actions, constitutional amendments, structural changes are all discussed and debated at convention.