To: All BCGEU Members at Oil & Gas Commission
Re: Bargaining Update #2

Your 2022/2023 Bargaining Committee just completed our second session of collective agreement bargaining. We sat down with the Employer in Victoria on February 14^th and 15^th to continue negotiations. We had intended to discuss monetary proposals at this session but official Ministerial sign-off of the PSEA mandate has still not been issued to the Employer. Without that direction, we were unable to table and discuss our proposals. While this continued delay is frustrating, we did have positive discussions on collective agreement language regarding other outstanding non‑monetary proposals.

We plan to meet the Employer again on March 14-16, assuming the Employer has received their mandate approval by those dates. Another update will be provided to you following our next session.

Please feel free to reach out to your Bargaining Committee Members if you have any additional suggestions or feedback as we continue to work to support improvements to our collective agreement!

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In solidarity,

Chris Grieve, Bargaining Committee Chairperson
Amanda Fraser, Bargaining Committee Member
John Warner, Bargaining Committee Member
Angela Mahlmann, Staff Representative – Negotiations

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