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...

Following our last bargaining update, your committee met with the Community Social Service Employers’ Association (CSSEA) for six more days of negotiations in February. By Feb. 18, we had agreed to and signed off on eight more non-monetary proposals. Despite this progress, we are still going toe-to-toe with demands for concessions in high-stakes areas. Of note, important monetary items remain...

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...