News & Updates

The Nurses' Bargaining Association will be withdrawing services at NRGH starting at 05:30 am on Monday, July 13. HSA will be providing further information for members at your worksite shortly. Members are reminded that you must not cross picket lines. You have the right to refuse to cross a legal picket line without fear of discipline. This right is stated...

The Nurses' Bargaining Association will be withdrawing services at Victoria General Hospital starting at 05:30 am on Sunday, July 12. HSA will be providing further information for members at your worksite shortly. Members are reminded that you must not cross picket lines. You have the right to refuse to cross a legal picket line without fear of discipline. This right...

The Nurses' Bargaining Association will be withdrawing services at Surrey Memorial Hospital and Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre starting at 05:30 am on Thursday, July 9. HSA will be providing further information for members at these worksites shortly. Members are reminded that you must not cross picket lines. You have the right to refuse to cross a legal...

We want you to join us for our 9 th Annual Young Workers Forum on Friday, October 16 at our HSA Office in New Westminster, BC! Please register by 11:59 pm on Monday, August 17, 2026 Are you an HSA member and 35 or younger? Come to take part in our Young Worker Community! Socialize, learn, and empower. Join us...

HSA has joined forces with the BC Nurses’ Union, Hospital Employees’ Union, and other health care unions in BC to push back on significant workload issues being created by management assigning extra duties during job action. “Planning for safe patient care is a management responsibility. It cannot be accomplished by simply downloading excessive workloads from one group of exhausted workers...

Nurses across BC, including 1000 RPNs and RNs represented by HSA, began limited job action Thursday in support of ongoing contract negotiations. Many non-nursing health science professional members are now facing significant challenges in the workplace, and asking a lot of really important questions, especially regarding extra duties. Nurses are engaged in “work to rule” and that means they are...

The Nurses Bargaining Association will be escalating to the next stage of job action by withdrawing services at Vancouver General Hospital starting at 05:30 am on Tuesday, July 7. The move comes after one day of a province-wide non-nursing ban and restriction on overtime. That job action has already forced the employer back to the bargaining table – the NBA...

As of 12:01 PM today, members represented by the Nurses' Bargaining Association (NBA) have begun job action in support of ongoing contract negotiations. If your worksite has RPNs, RNs, or LPNs at your facility under the NBA collective agreement, you may see job action at your worksite. BC nurses will begin their job action with an overtime ban and work...

As of 12:01 PM today, all members represented by the Nurses' Bargaining Association (NBA) have begun job action in support of ongoing contract negotiations. Here's what it means for you. Nurses will begin with two forms of job action: an overtime ban and work to rule. What an overtime ban means for you An overtime ban requires you work only...

BC nurses issued 72-hour strike notice on Monday. This does not mean job action is certain to happen, but it’s possible your worksite could be affected as early as Thursday if there are RPNs, RNs, or LPNs at your facility working under the NBA collective agreement. Your union is ready to support HSA members with any type of job action...