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Community living and family services workers to return to bargaining

Latest strike action involved 3,900 members – employer calls for a return to the bargaining table

After two weeks of rotating job action in community living and family services, the Community Social Services Employers’ Association has invited the multi-union bargaining association back to the bargaining table. Read more »

New Video - Two-Person Care Needs a Planned Approach

Health care workers sometimes find themselves in situations where their plans for providing care don’t achieve the intended results. A "two is better than one" solution to the situation won’t work if workers don’t understand why their first try was not successful.  Read more »

Over 3000 families mark BC’s first family day by demanding affordable childcare

Over 3,000 BC families are marking the province’s first family day holiday by urging the government to commit to implementing a new $10 a day childcare system. Read more »

Job action to continue at SFU child care

The BCGEU has served 72 hour strike notice at SFU Childcare Society for ongoing job action beginning the week of February 12, 2013.

We initiated job action this week when we targeted the Espuleta Child Care Centre for job action on Friday. Read more »

Time to invest in BC’s child protection system

The disturbing report “Who protected him?” released by the Representative for Children and Youth evidences a failure in BC’s child protection system that requires a significant investment of resources by the government to rectify, says the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU). Read more »

Community living and family services workers return to bargaining table after two successful weeks of large-scale job action

Latest strike action impacted 3,900 members – employer has invited us back to the bargaining table

After two successful weeks of large-scale job action in community living and family services, the employer has invited the multi-union bargaining association back to the bargaining table. Read more »

C-5 component agreement now online

The “Retail Stores and Warehouse - Component 5”  collective agreement is now posted online.

Click here to read the component agreement.

A copy of the new collective agreement, including the Master Agreement and Component Agreement, will be mailed to members in the weeks ahead. Read more »

Nearly 500 family service workers on strike

Proper government funding needed for programs that support vulnerable families. Picketing will occur in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Kamloops, Nelson, Castlegar, Trail, Cranbrook and Vernon on Wednesday and Thursday Read more »

Commentary: BC Liberal's $211 million high-tech fiasco a "colossal failure" that should be scrapped

The following commentary was published yesterday in the Times Colonist newspaper:

Time to scrap province’s buggy computer system

by Darryl Walker, president of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union Read more »

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