(image) Whether you are an employer or an employee, you will know that teamwork matters. Like a well-oiled machine, the team should work together well, getting the job done while feeling pumped that they have made a difference, collectively and individually. Of course, this doesn’t happen overnight. Like an apple tree, the team needs to be … [Read more...]
Give Your Employees A Reason To Stay!
November 10, 2017 by
You’ve heard it before: employees do not leave bad jobs, only bad employers. When you are running your own company, it’s easy to put the needs of the company before the needs of your employees. It’s not a malicious way of thinking, simply that while people matter, the success of the company comes first. Smart employers know that great employees are … [Read more...]
Hospital Employees Union warns of big backlogs in medical transcriptions
February 13, 2013 by
The Hospital Employees Union is warning of a serious backlog in medical transcription services that could impact patients. HEU spokesperson Bonnie Pearson says almost 17-thousand patient reports are just waiting to be transcribed in Vancouver and Richmond hospitals. Pearson says the delay could have a serious impact for patients in the … [Read more...]
HandyDART employees protest funding freeze
December 1, 2012 by
HandyDART employees held a small protest at Broadway and Commercial in Vancouver on Saturday to protest Translink's funding freeze of their service over the next three years. Mark Beeching, a training instructor at HandyDART, says seniors and the disabled will likely have to turn to taxis. Even at half price under the taxi saver program, he says … [Read more...]
Veterans’ care home switches to non-union employees
November 3, 2012 by
A Veterans’ care home is dropping unionized workers in favor of cheaper contract employees. George Derby Centre Executive Director Janice Mitchell says that won't result in worse care. "We work very closely with our families and they mean a lot to us. It's like with any change, it can be really difficult: the unknown. What I do know is that … [Read more...]
Hospital Employees Union to vote on strike mandate
October 21, 2012 by
Members of the Hospital Employees' Union will begin voting tomorrow on whether to strike over protecting member benefits. Bonnie Pearson with the union says they have been in negotiations for a collective agreement for more than eight months. "Health employers keep telling us that we need to pay for any kind of a modest wage increase by taking it … [Read more...]
The Hospital Employees Union says costs are soaring for outsourced transcription services.
April 30, 2012 by
The Hospital Employees Union wants BC's Health minister to step in for a "sober second look" at privatizing medical transcription services, with 130 jobs on the block. HEU Spokesperson Bonnie Pearson says billing costs for transcriptionists, already privatized, have shot up 150% in just four years. Pearson says while they used … [Read more...]
The Hospital Employees Union wants hospital cleanliness audits overhauled.
March 1, 2012 by
The Hospital Employees Union wants the method by which hospitals are judged as being clean, or not, to be changed over concerns about C-Difficile. HEU spokesperson Margi Blamey says cleaning audits passed Burnaby hospital with flying colours, despite an outbreak of C-Difficile. Blamey said "So we really need them to expand … [Read more...]
