IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR HSA MEMBERS AFFECTED BY THE ORDER HSA has learned that a Provincial Health Officer order from April 2020 restricting health care workers from working at multiple sites was lifted in Vancouver Coastal Health Authority by an exemption issued by the local Medical Health Officer on July 7, 2022. The employer failed to inform the union of the...
Let your union know what email messages you want to receive — use the member contact update tool today.
Image
HSPBA: Implementing the New Profile-Based Classification System
Learn about the upcoming move to a new profile-based classification system for health science professionals.
Image
Photo Contest
Step one: take photos that represent your profession.
Step two: win prizes!
Image
End The Shortages
There's no health care without specialized health care professionals.
Uniting professionals in modern health and social services.
HSA represents more than 20,000 health care and social services professionals in hospitals, community health settings, child development centres, transition houses, and other community agencies across British Columbia.
Find Your Steward
Contact your steward first regarding workplace concerns.
Find Your Regional Director
For all provincial, national, or union policy issues, contact your elected regional director.
Head Office
For regional labour relations issues, or if your steward can't help, contact the HSA office and speak to a labour relations officer toll free.
Since the resumption of negotiations at the end of September, the HSPBA Bargaining Committee has been working to advance measures to address recruitment, retention, shortage and workload issues which drive so many of the serious issues affecting the public health care system, the people who depend on it, and the professionals who keep it running. The employers remain resistant to...
Jas Giddha has been re-elected to serve a two-year term as a member of HSA’s Board of Directors, representing HSA members in Region 7 from several worksites, including Surrey Memorial, Peace Arch, Abbotsford, and Chilliwack Hospitals, and the Fraser Valley Centre for Child Development. First elected to the Board of Directors in 2017, Giddha is a medical radiation technologist at...
HSA members have elected Jill Slind to serve a two-year term on the union’s board of directors representing Region 5, which includes a number of worksites in the Lower Mainland including BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital and the Vancouver Cancer Centre. A computational biologist at the Vancouver Cancer Centre, Slind has been active in the union since 2017 as a...
Becky Packer has been re-elected to serve a two-year term as a member of HSA’s Board of Directors, representing HSA members in Region1 from worksites in Nanaimo and north on Vancouver Island. A physiotherapist at Cumberland Health Centre, she has been active in the union since 2008, and was first elected to the Board of Directors in 2019. She has...
Nominations are now open for Regional Director elections in HSA Regions 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. This is an excellent opportunity for members to seek to serve on the HSA Board of Directors, contribute to the leadership of the union, and to represent the interests of other members. In regions where more than one candidate is nominated, HSA will...
Joint Statement by Canada’s Provincial and Territorial Federations of Labour In advance of the federal, provincial and territorial labour ministers’ meeting, provincial and territorial federations of labour are united in demanding that provincial and territorial governments guarantee seamless access to universal, permanent and adequate employer-provided sick days for all workers. More than half of all Canadian workers have no access...
HSA International Women's Day Workshop Each year the HSA Women’s Committee works to ensure members have an opportunity to celebrate International Women’s Day by offering a workshop to explore issues of interest to women in the union. This year, members are encouraged to apply for a one-day workshop March 8, 2019, which will focus on mentorship . Mentoring has been...
