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July 11, 2025
July 12—Honouring the Brooklyn Tower Crane Collapse Workers and Opening of Me...
This July 12 marks four years since the devastating Brooklyn Tower crane collapse in downtown Kelowna-a tragedy that took the lives of five workers: Patrick Stemmer, Eric Stemmer, Cailen Vilness, Brad Zawislak, and Jared Zook. Each of them went to work that morning and didn't come home. And each of them deserves to be remembered-not just for how they died, but for who they were and the communi...
July 10, 2025
Public Service Bargaining - This week in bargaining: Updates from your commit...
Updates from your committee chair
This week, your Public Service Bargaining Committee resumed negotiations with the employer in Vancouver.
In a new video update, BCGEU President and Bargaining Committee Chair Paul Finch outlines the latest developments at the table. While there has been some progress in the last week-particularly on component proposals and non-monetary items like the Rapid Grie...
July 04, 2025
Back at the table: Bargaining resumes in Vancouver - BC General Employees' Un...
Back at the table: Bargaining resumes in VancouverThis week, bargaining resumed in Vancouver between your bargaining committee and your employer – the B.C. government's Public Service Agency. Your bargaining committee remains steadfast on advancing the key priorities identified by thousands of members through the most extensive consultation in our union's history. These priorities include:
Co...
June 28, 2025
Remembering the Stonewall Uprising - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
A Statement from BCGEU's Executive Vice-President and Chair of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Committee Tristen Wybou“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” ~ Marsha P. Johnson
When you think Americana, you probably don’t think of the Stonewall Inn – the gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich village that was raided by police on this day in 1969, famously catalyzing a multi-day resistance to stat...
June 27, 2025
Monetary counteroffer reflects member priorities - BC General Employees' Unio...
Monetary counteroffer reflects member priorities Earlier this week, your bargaining committee presented a monetary counteroffer to the employer-including proposals on wages and benefits. In his opening remarks at the table with the employer, Committee Chair Paul Finch made it clear: the employer's initial wage offer falls far short of what members have identified as fair and reasonable. Your b...
June 27, 2025
MEDIA RELEASE - BCGEU Condemns Violent Incident at MLA Bowinn Ma’s Constituen...
MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BCGEU Condemns Violent Incident at MLA Bowinn Ma's Constituency Office
Burnaby, B.C. June 27, 2025 –
We are deeply disturbed by the violent incident that unfolded today in front of the constituency office of MLA Bowinn Ma. We are grateful to hear that no one was injured and that the BCGEU members working in this and other constituency offices across...
June 26, 2025
Public Service Worksite Contacts - Understanding your role as a Worksite Cont...
As a Worksite Contact during this round of public service bargaining, we understand you likely have questions about your role. We want to make sure that you feel prepared to take on this important work. That’s why we have just released this video to guide you:
In addition, we have prepared a resource package and one-pager that you can refer to for information about the Member Web App, how to c...
June 20, 2025
Public Service Members - Employer tables opening wage offer - BC General Empl...
Employer tables opening wage offer
Public service bargaining has resumed in Vancouver following a pause in negotiations between your Public Service Bargaining Committee and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA).On Tuesday, your employer tabled its monetary proposals, including wages and benefits. This includes a proposed two-year agreement with the following General Wage Incre...
June 19, 2025
Join us for Pride Events in Area 01 on June 22 and July 6! - BC General Emplo...
As we head into Pride, we are reminded that the first Pride was a collective uprising against injustice. It is in that spirit of solidarity and defiance that we mark this Pride season with our new theme:
Our Pride, Our Right, Our Future, Our Fight.
We hope you'll join us at one of the following Pride events in Area 01:
Cowichan Pride on Sunday, June 22
Victoria Pride on Sunday, July 6
To ...
June 13, 2025
Your priorities – and what you’re willing to fight for - BC General Employees...
Dear Friend,
Next week, we're heading back to the bargaining table, with more talks scheduled for the following week.
We're still working through key non-monetary issues-like modernizing our collective agreement and securing fair telework provisions. But we expect to exchange proposals on wages, benefits, and other monetary items soon.
That's when we'll see if the employer is bringing an offe...
June 04, 2025
Public Service Members - MOU 1 and Your Job Security - BC General Employees' ...
MOU 1 and Your Job Security
In recent months, many BCGEU members working for B.C.'s public service have voiced concerns about job security. We understand the reasons for this concern and want to remind you of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 1-an important provision in our collective agreement that safeguards regular civil service positions.The current version of MOU 1 has been in effect since...
June 04, 2025
Members in Area 03 & Area 04 - Event: In-Person Grief Circle - BC General Emp...
🕊️ In-Person Grief Circle: Kwentuhan (Talking) Circle for Healing & Mourning 🕊️
In the wake of the April 26 tragedy at Lapu Lapu Day and with the 40th day of mourning approaching, BCGEU invites all affected to a grief circle-kwentuhan (Tagalog for "talking") circle-to grieve, reflect, and heal together in community.
🗓️ Saturday, June 7, 2025 🕚 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT 📍 BCGEU Lower Mai...
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