Judy Darcy is the secretary-business manager of the 43,000-member Hospital Employees' Union, a position she has held since March 2005. HEU is the largest health care union in B.C., of which approximately 85 percent of members are women.

As HEU's chief negotiator and spokesperson, Judy has successfully concluded several rounds of public and private sector bargaining. She led the multi-union Facilities Bargaining Association to conclude a new collective agreement in 2006 to cover health care workers in hospitals and long-term care facilities across the province – despite restraints placed on bargaining by the B.C. government's controversial Bill 29, which the Supreme Court of Canada found in 2007 violated the guarantee of freedom of association in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Before coming to HEU, Darcy was the national president for 12 years of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canada’s largest union. Under her leadership, CUPE membership grew by a third to over 540,000 members. As CUPE President, Darcy was involved in negotiating settlements in key disputes from coast to coast.