TIME:    6:00 pm General Meeting
PLACE:  BCGEU Fraser Valley Office, 8555 198A St., Langley Twp (put in Twp if using a map search)

On October 26, 2015 your union met with senior Corrections Branch Provincial Director Stephanie Macpherson, former FRCC Warden Steve Dicastri, and current FRCC Warden Don Tosh. These meetings came about because of concerns raised by FRCC Part Time Regular (PTR) staff as well as Full Time Regular staff about working conditions and workplace stressors facing members at the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre.

Nominations are now open for the following position on the Local 104 Executive:

Revised to Include OHS Members

The Public Service Agency has calculated the Economic Stability Dividend (ESD) for 2016. The BCGEU has also confirmed these calculations.

We want to give you an update about benchmark reviews.
 
We’ve had productive meetings with the Deputy Sheriff Focus Group to finalize our classification rationale responses and evidence. We sent our rationales, ratings and submissions to the PSA in October. The Union's submissions and supporting documents include a great deal of technical detail and volume of information because they are intended to be as comprehensive as possible. Upon receiving our submission, the PSA Classifications Specialists have said they want time to thoroughly review our submissions and give consideration to the reasons for our ratings of the DS positions. The PSA will also have to confer with Justice (AG) Ministry representatives throughout their review.
 
We are in the process of finalizing the Corrections submissions with supporting evidence which will then be sent to the PSA. We will meet with Corrections Focus Group members shortly to review and confirm our materials. Once we send our Corrections materials to the PSA, they will review them and confer with Justice (PSSG) Ministry representatives.
 
We’ve been able to have some preliminary meetings with the Joint Technical Working Committee about the benchmark reviews, but cannot have the detailed conversations about the various factors until they have had time to do their due diligence. We plan to meet in late January to review all five Component 1 positions. Although the process is taking longer than originally anticipated, we have determined that it is better to take the extra time in order to make sure that we put forward the strongest possible cases.
 
If the rationales and ratings change as a result of the Joint Technical Working Committee reviews, it may not be necessary to proceed to hearing. Most of the detailed and technical work is being done at this stage, so that if we do need to go to hearing, it will be a relatively straightforward matter.
 
We will provide updates as the reviews proceed.
 
Dean Purdy
Jennifer Jordan
Barb Crowley

The BCGEU has entered into an agreement with BC Corrections to ensure Correctional Officers (COs) on hospital escorts have an opportunity to leave their work stations during rest periods. 

The BCGEU is renewing its call to reopen and expand services at the partially closed Victoria Youth Custody Centre (VYCC). The call comes as new auxiliary, on-call staff are being hired at the centre which was partially closed last year to save money.

A whole day just for Local 101 stewards!

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