Quality Public Services

Congratulations! By landing on this page, you have just taken a first, important first step to ensure tax fairness and to promote quality public services!

The single best way to build support for tax fairness and quality public services is to talk about these issues. This campaign is about starting a conversation.

Fair tax policies and quality public services can help reduce income inequality and achieve greater prosperity, opportunity and living standards for all British Columbians. All across B.C., 12 BCGEU champions for change are speaking out in workplaces, community meetings, and municipal meetings. They are talking to friends, family, and the general public. They are speaking about rising income inequality, and the tax cuts that favours corporations and the wealthy.  Find out more about our champions for change, and about tax fairness and quality public services.

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BCGEU welcomes review of provincial justice system

The BCGEU welcomes news the province has established an independent review of the deeply troubled provincial justice system and is calling on the government to act quickly and invest additional resources. Read more »

BCGEU supports Occupy Vancouver

The B.C. Government and Services’ Employees’ Union (BCGEU) will be participating in Occupy Vancouver protests, starting on Saturday. Read more »

Free parks parking a tiny step forward: B.C. government needs to do more

The BCGEU supports the move to eliminate parking fees in all provincial parks, but wants more much done to restore B.C.'s parks after a decade of neglect.

The BCGEU represents forest and park staff around the province. Read more »

Dispatch from Wisconsin: “This is what democracy looks like!”

This is the second in a series of BCGEU dispatches from Wisconsin, where the governor's union-busting is spurring a popular uprising. In a full, frontal attack on public sector unions, the Republican state governor wants to strip collective bargaining rights from 175,000 Wisconsin public sector workers.

BCGEU's Holly Page is in Wisconsin to show our solidarity. Read more »

Email Harper to demand services for people with mental illness!

One in five British Columbians live with mental illness or addictions. But many do not receive the treatment and care they need. That's shameful.
 
Governments are giving away billions in corporate tax cuts while thousands of people with mental illness and addictions are unable to get the help they need.

Federal budget should focus on jobs, families and investing in public services

This year's March 22 federal budget should focus on jobs and families, as well as investment in public services instead of implementation of further corporate tax cuts, said BCGEU president Darryl Walker in a letter to federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today. Read more »

“Status quo" B.C. Liberal budget locks in three more years of severe cuts to vital public services

Over 2000 jobs cut to pay for $2.5 billion election slush fund

The B.C. Government’s Budget 2011, tabled in the legislature today promises only more of the same staff and program cuts for important public services, the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union said today.
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Stand-pat throne speech ensures continued uncertainty for public service workers and taxpayers

The B.C. Government’s throne speech, tabled today amid the unusual circumstances of political leadership contests in both the governing and opposition parties, promises only continued uncertainty for the public service, the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union said today. Read more »

Darryl Walker blogs on tax fairness

BCGEU President Darryl Walker has blogged about the the need to change the conversation on taxes.

Read more on his blog posting "Let's talk tax fairness".