Unfortunately, we’ve become aware that email scammers are targeting HSA members, activists, and staff with malicious email messages that impersonate our senior leadership. The members and staff who received these messages became suspicious as, upon a closer look, the messages came from an email address that is not associated with HSA. Please be assured that HSA takes online and data...

Pride is a time where we unite in solidarity with our colleagues, friends and family in the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual+ (2SLGBTQIA+) community. It is a time where we reflect on the progress that has been made advancing 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, celebrate the members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and call for further action to remedy remaining...

Over the past year, your bargaining committee fought hard to ensure that your interests were well represented at the Community Bargaining Association (CBA) table. Members provided the union clear direction that wages, parity with the Facilities Bargaining Association, and improvements in a number of key areas such as portability, premiums, coverage of required fees, and more were paramount to this...

After a year of difficult negotiations, we are pleased to say that your bargaining committee’s hard work has resulted in a tentative agreement for HSPBA members. Going into this round of negotiations, the objective was to build on the wins of the last negotiations despite the provincial government’s significant and growing fiscal constraints. Specifically, members directed the union to seek...

Following months of negotiations, the Community Bargaining Association (CBA) reached a tentative agreement with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC), covering more than 26,000 community health workers across the province. “Our CBA members deliver incredibly vital services in communities across BC, and this agreement is a meaningful step toward the recognition they deserve,” HSA President Sarah Kooner says. “The...

BC’s 25,000 specialized health professionals reached a tentative agreement in the early hours of Friday morning, after almost one year of negotiations between the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association (HSPBA) and Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC). “Members sent us to the bargaining table to make improvements to wages, classifications, work-life balance, recognition and respect, and partnership for quality health...

After returning to the table for five days of intensive negotiations, including a marathon session lasting twenty-four consecutive hours, your CBA bargaining committee is proud to announce a tentative agreement was reached with the Health Employers’ Association of BC (HEABC) on Sunday, February 22. Over the coming days we will be creating a comprehensive summary of the tentative agreement, including...