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What is the Community Bargaining Association (CBA), and the Health Employers’ Association of BC (HEABC)?

Answer

The Community Bargaining Association (CBA) represents unionized workers in the Community Health sector, and the Health Employers’ Association of BC (HEABC) represents the employers.

The CBA Negotiating Committee is the bargaining committee and is made up of union members and representatives of eight unions. The negotiating committee is tasked with negotiating new terms of a collective agreement for over 21,000 unionized workers in the in the Community Health sector across the province. The CBA Negotiating Committee sits across the table with the HEABC bargaining committee, which coordinates the human resource and labour relations interests of more than 213 publicly funded health care employers in British Columbia.