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A bargaining hotline for HSA members to listen by phone to updates on bargaining progress in the Paramedical Professional Bargaining Association (health sciences), Nurses Bargaining Association (nurses), Community Bargaining Association (community health) and Union Bargaining Association (community social services) is now up and running. For information on negotiations in your sector, call the hotline, or check this web site. Lower...

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EB04-04 Spaces are still available for the Steward Training Level I (basic steward training) workshop and OH&S Steward Training. The workshops will be held at the HSA office at #300 - 5118 Joyce Street, Vancouver. The dates are as follows. Please fax application forms ASAP. Steward Training Level I (three-day workshop) Workshop 1 February 23, 24, 25 ("*FULL"*) Workshop 2...

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The Report: January / February 2004 vol.25 num.1 by CAROL RIVIERE and YUKIE KURAHASHI eniors, their families and the health care workers who provide elder care are becoming increasingly frustrated as the Campbell Liberals continue to make a bewildering number of changes and cuts to seniors care. For most seniors, MSP no longer pays even a portion of the fee...

The Report: January / February 2004 vol.25 num.1 he BC Coalition of Womens Centres provides a critical voice for women at a time when the provincial government is turning its back on all communities. For women, these changes have been particularly harsh. Womens centres are needed now, more than ever. What can you do to help? Contact the womens centre...

The Report: January / February 2004 vol.25 num.1 by COLLEEN FULLER and SETH KLEIN t hasnt been often that we at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have found occasion to applaud the BC government for one of its new policies. But we did commend the government for Bill 92 ... The Medicare Protection Amendment Act. Now, sadly, after a...