The arbitrator who is deciding the Deputy Sheriff, Sergeant and Staff Sergeant Reference Jobs recently asked the union and Public Service Agency classification representatives a number of questions to clarify some of the evidence and issues arising from their respective submissions.
 
We anticipate the arbitrator will be able to provide her decision by mid-June. We will provide another update as information becomes available.

Today Dean Purdy, BCGEU vice president and chair of Corrections and Sheriff Services - Component 1, spoke with Kash Heed on Pulse 107.7 FM.

British Columbia’s children’s representative says the Victoria Youth Custody Centre is operating as a “shadow facility” for young offenders awaiting court dates, more than two years after the province announced the centre would close. Read more...

Please be advised that the Christopher Chester has been acclaimed as the steward at the Abbotsford courthouse.

This is to report that the BCGEU’s evidence and arguments for the benchmark reviews for Deputy Sheriffs, Sergeants and Staff Sergeants have been submitted to the arbitrator. The arbitrator will now consider our union’s case and render a decision.

The BCGEU has requested a meeting with WorkSafeBC representatives to develop a plan to address the increasing number of inmate assaults on Correctional Officers in provincial prisons.

Earlier this week Dean Purdy, BCGEU vice president and chair of Corrections and Sheriff Services - Component 1, spoke with Kash Heed on Pulse 107.7 FM.

BCGEU president Stephanie Smith provides an update on some of the important events and initiatives the BCGEU is involved with in April and May.

Kash Heed speaks with Dean Purdy, Vice-President of Component 1 of the BCGEU, which represents Correctional and Sheriff Services employees in BC. They discuss the recent death of an inmate at the North Fraser Correctional Institute and how it relates to inmate vs. inmate violence at correctional facilities. Listen here...go the Audio Vault page for April 26, 2016.