News & Updates

Are You 35 or Under? Join HSA’s Young Workers Committee! HSA is now accepting applications for the 2025 Young Workers’ Committee. The group advises the union’s Board of Directors on issues important to the one-third of HSA members who are 35 and under. The Young Workers’ Committee (YWC) is comprised of five (5) young workers who help the union to...

Three candidates have been nominated to represent HSA members who work in Region 4 on the union’s board of directors: Maha Elashi, Laura Greenwood, and Tanya Dunne. Please click here to see their candidate statements. The successful candidate will assume the position of Regional Director for the remainder of the two-year term, which will end at the conclusion of HSA's...

HSA members covered by the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA) contract will soon be eligible to apply for professional development funding available through the 2024-25 Professional Enhancement Bursary. Applications for the Professional Enhancement Bursary will open on Wednesday, November 20. To apply, members will need to have a personal email address registered with the union. The application will be...

Kane Tse, President of Health Sciences Association of BC, today released the following statement: On behalf of over 22,000 specialized health professionals in BC, I would like to note that our province has lost a great champion today. John Horgan believed in a better future. He believed that we could get there together, by recognizing that everyone had value, by...

Delegates from worksites around the province gathered in Burnaby this week to begin the work on negotiating the next collective agreement for members covered by the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association. Over 1300 individual bargaining proposals, covering a wide range of issues, were submitted by chapters throughout BC, and delegates to the bargaining proposal conference did the hard work of...

Northern Health and Island Health are implementing the new profile-based classification systemfor health science professionals on Friday, November 8. What does this mean? Though the vast majority of HSA members won’t see any change to their pay, your job’s classification and salary structure will formally change today. Your job’s classification will now be one of the seven profiles of the...

Date: January 20, 2025 Time: 9am-4:30pm PST Location: Virtual via Zoom HSA is pleased to have Vikki Reynolds return to facilitate this one-day workshop during which she will differentiate vicarious trauma and burn out from the spiritual and ethical pain that our work engenders when we are unable to provide dignity and social justice to the people we want to...

HSA is pleased to offer another opportunity to attend this two-day workshop! DATES: January 14-15, 2025 TIME: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm (PST) LOCATION: Virtual – via Zoom This two-day virtual workshop will help HSA members develop the skills, compassion, and abilities required to recognize and change colonial systems and practices in their personal and professional lives. These are the...

If you walk through the bustling halls of St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver, you might find Emily Murtagh, an Electrophysiology (EP) Technologist, making use of a complex array of monitors and equipment that help her understand and manage each patient’s heart rhythms with precision and compassion. Now in her 8 th year at St. Paul’s and as an EP...

Kathleen Potter’s journey in social work has been a path defined by compassion, advocacy, and a commitment to supporting people through their most vulnerable moments. As one of many Health Sciences Association (HSA) members who provide vital services in BC’s health care system, her career has taken her from Eastern Canada to Asia to the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside...