Members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) employed by the provincial government have voted 71 percent in favour of a new collective agreement. The announcement was made today by the union following two weeks of voting.
The voting comes following a tentative agreement with government negotiators that was reached on March 29. Read more »
The following is a summary of the information available on the tentative public service agreement. There are links to each document on the BCGEU web site.
To review the Employment Security language in the Public Service Tentative Agreement -- download the PDF file of the Ratification Bulletin, and turn to Page 9.
Your bargaining committee just spent the last few days with your Employer. We tabled the non-monetary proposals on Monday and began contract negotiations in earnest. Read more »
Your Bargaining Committee has met on November 23, 2011 and January 17, 2012 to prepare for bargaining. We then met with the Employer on January 23, 24, 25, 2012, January 27, 2012 and February 6, 2012. Read more »
Representatives of the BCGEU met with representatives of the Road Builders Association in Vancouver on Thursday and Friday last week.
No dates have been set for the next round of talks at the provincial table. We expect to establish dates for the local tables in the next few weeks. Read more »
[BURNABY] Unions representing 43,000 B.C. health care workers will sit down with employers and government to begin negotiations for a new collective agreement on Tuesday. Read more »