LifeLabs was quietly bought up by the American company Quest Diagnostics, a Fortune 500 giant, in the summer of 2024. This company and its multimillionaire CEO & President James Davis have deep pockets from the profit they make off America’s private healthcare system – and now they are profiting off B.C. taxpayers! 

We pay LifeLabs $300 million each year for their services. Those health dollars should stay in B.C. to pay fair wages and maintain the quality and sustainability of our health services – not get scooped up by an American company. Indeed, a recent poll by the BCGEU showed a majority of people (74%) in British Columbia oppose for-profit American companies owning and controlling health care services in the province. 

On top of this, LifeLabs workers in B.C. are now on strike because Quest is refusing to agree to wage increases that help with the cost of living, or address unsustainable working conditions. Low wages and poor conditions threaten the quality of services we all expect from LifeLabs. 

We all deserve better and that’s why we need to ask the B.C. government: Why is an American company sucking millions of public health dollars out of B.C? 

Email government now to let them know you agree: B.C.’s public health dollars should go towards the well-being of workers and patients, not into the pockets of American health care CEOs!