News & Updates

Date: March 11-12, 2025 Time: 9am to 4:30pm PST, one hour for lunch Location: Virtual via Zoom Supervisors were some of the founding members of HSA when the union was first organized, and HSA is unique in terms of the number of supervisors who are included in the union. This workshop is for HSA supervisors who want to learn more...

Jing-Yi Ng, a clinical pharmacist at Eagle Ridge Hospital, has been acclaimed to a third term as the Region 3 representative on HSA's Board of Directors. Ng is currently HSA's Vice President and is one of two Board representatives on the HSPBA Bargaining Committee. Her two-year term will expire at the end of HSA's 2027 Convention. Having worked as a...

Two candidates have been nominated to represent HSA members who work in Region 9 on the union’s board of directors: Gina Sanche and Kathy Anderson. Please click here to see their candidate statements. The successful candidate will assume the position of Regional Director for a two-year term, which will begin at the conclusion of HSA's 2025 annual convention. All Candidates...

Two candidates have been nominated to represent HSA members who work in Region 7 on the union’s board of directors: Sarah Kooner and Sonia Andhi Bilkhu. Please click here to see their candidate statements. The successful candidate will assume the position of Regional Director for a two-year term, which will begin at the conclusion of HSA's 2025 annual convention. All...

Three candidates have been nominated to represent HSA members who work in Region 5 on the union’s board of directors: Carla Gibbons, Lisa Daechsel, and Ash Oberoi. Please click here to see their candidate statements. The successful candidate will assume the position of Regional Director for a two-year term, which will begin at the conclusion of HSA's 2025 annual convention...

Anti-Racism Workshop Date: March 25-26, 2025 Time: 9:00am-4:30pm PST Location: Virtual via Zoom How do health care and social services professionals begin to put a dent in the racial inequities that exist in our fields? Join us for a two-day anti-racism workshop and active learning session to explore how we can participate in anti-racist change in British Columbia's health care...

The following bulletin contains important information for HSA members covered by the Community Social Services collective agreement paraprofessional wage schedule. Many members in supervisory roles and in classifications comparable to the Health Science Professional collective agreement’s Disciplines Allied to Social Work (i.e. counselling professions) are likely affected by these changes. The 2023 and 2024 wage schedules for paraprofessional occupations have...

HSA is planning the union’s first-ever one-day Equity Summit to be held on February 19th, 2025 – an opportunity to connect, learn and dream about what a more equitable working world could look like. If you’re a person who experiences marginalization, and/or share concerns about how the systems and structures of our world unfairly treat people based on social groups...

Online voting for HSA members in HSA Region 4 opens tonight, Friday, November 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm, and will remain open to 8:00 pm on Thursday, January 2, 2025. All members with a personal email address on file with the union will receive voting credentials for online voting by email. If you are not sure if HSA has your...

Fraser and Interior Health are implementing the new profile-based classification system for health science professionals on Friday, November 22. 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...