NEWS & UPDATES
September 10, 2021
BCGEU provides submission to BC Gov’t to help build a long-term economic plan...
BCGEU provides submission to BC Gov't to help build a long-term economic plan for B.C.
This past June, the B.C. government requested input from business, labour, Indigenous and other stakeholders for the development of our province's long-term, post-pandemic economic plan.
Your union represented the voices of our 82,000 members in the consultative process, which involved Ravi Kahlon, Minister o...
September 02, 2021
PRT Growing Services Ltd. - Bargaining Update BCGEU BCGEU - BCGEU
The union and employer bargaining committees met virtually on August 12th. We continued to have constructive discussions on our non-monetary items and we have not tabled or moved into any monetary items yet.We had hoped to bargain in person the week of September 27th but with changes to provincial health orders in the interior, we have had to adjust to bargaining virtually that week.We are look...
September 02, 2021
Solidarity in Post-Secondary Labour Movement - BCGEU
Solidarity in Post-Secondary Labour Movement
(British Columbia, September 2, 2021) – With last week's ever-changing landscape in COVID-related announcements affecting BC's post-secondary sector we saw what's possible amidst chaos. Union leaders jumped to action to represent their members in a variety of ways and one of those ways was that we, the undersigned unions, came together as a collectiv...
August 31, 2021
Expression of Interest – Component Young Worker - BCGEU
Currently, there is a vacancy on the component (meets four times per year) for a young worker. This position is for any member who is under the age of 30.This position brings light to the important issues of young workers that may include limitations they have encountered in the workplace and within the labour movement. Our component young worker will assist locals that do not have a young work...
August 30, 2021
B.C. government liquor and cannabis workers rally for essential pay outside e...
B.C. government liquor and cannabis workers rally for essential pay outside employer's head office, September 1
BURNABY, COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – After five months without response from the Minister of Finance, B.C. General Employees' Union (BCGEU) members working for the BC Liquor Distribution Branch (BCLDB) will rally outside the BCLDB's head office to call for their employer's support in r...
BCGEU Headquarters is on the unceded and shared traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skxwú7mesh (Squamish) & Səlí̓ lwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.