B.C. Hospital Employees Union ratifies three-year contract agreement

The nearly 44,000 members of the B.C. Hospital Employees Union have ratified a three-year contract agreement.
The union says its members voted 89 per cent in favour of the deal that gives its members health, safety and compensation improvements, along with job security.
Union secretary-business manager Jennifer Whiteside says the agreement restores contracting-out protections that were taken away by the former B.C. Liberal government in 2002. Whiteside says in a news release that the agreem