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July 07, 2016
BCGEU will support members in Ombudsperson investigation of Health Ministry f...
The BCGEU will provide assistance and access to legal counsel at the request of members who are called to interviews by Ombudsperson Jay Chalke as he investigates the Ministry of Health firings.
At the request of members who are called, BCGEU Staff Representative Cathy McCallum will work with members and seek to attend their interviews.
Your union has also retained lawyer Steve Rogers of Vict...
July 06, 2016
Work-Able Graduate Internship Program
The BCGEU is pleased to announce we have negotiated an agreement with the Public Service Agency to establish an internship program for individuals who self-identify as a person with a disability. The program is designed to support the recruitment and retention of people with disabilities.
Each internship will run for 12 months, and a maximum of 15 internships will be available per year.
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July 05, 2016
The BCGEU stands with Canada Post workers
Canada Post’s announcement that they will lock out Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) members as soon as Friday is an attack on collective bargaining, its workers and its customers.
Canada Post is refusing to do the work of collective bargaining with CUPW by demanding massive rollbacks on the union’s hard fought gains.
Those rollbacks include moving all new hires from a defined benefit...
June 30, 2016
BCGEU presses Canadian Prime Minister on Mexican teacher repression
Since mid-May, Mexican teachers have launched a nation-wide protest against new government measures that seek to shut down teacher (normal) training schools, base continued employment on teachers’ results on standardized written exams, and eliminate the need for pedagogical training for new teachers. The government’s response has been a wave of violence that includes the abduction and arbitrary...
June 30, 2016
Only 7 full time park rangers patrol 14 million hectares of protected areas i...
Further cuts results in just a handful of rangers overseeing an area the size of Denmark, Costa Rica and Switzerland combined
Check our BC Parks campaign page
Vancouver, BC – The number of full time (FT) park rangers in BC has sunk to a low of just 7 individuals who are expected to patrol 14 million hectares of protected areas. The number of full time rangers slumped from 27 positions in 2...
June 29, 2016
Working Poverty in Metro Vancouver: the extent of the problem and realistic s...
Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a study on poverty in Vancouver. The report, Working Poverty in Metro Vancouver, presents sobering details on the increasing levels of poverty in the region. It also dispels an important myth about poverty: that getting a job will help lift a person out of poverty.
Poverty in B.C.’s largest city is increasingly a story of low pa...
June 28, 2016
Election for Local 1204 Executive - 2nd Vice Chairperson
REVISED
The BCGEU is holding an election for the position of the Local 1204 Executive - 2nd Vice Chairperson. Candidate statements are attached for those candidates who provided them:
Leona Birchard
Reshma Chandra
Anita McClelland
Pamela Willingshofer (biography attached)
Ballots are available from your stewards and contacts at the worksite. You may also vote at the Fraser Valley Area Offi...
June 24, 2016
Keep Your Cool!
The recent hot weather in our province generated several calls to the BCGEU Occupational Health and Safety department. Members want to know if the employer has the responsibility to protect workers from hot temperatures both indoors and out. The short answer is “YES!”
The Workers Compensation Act Section 115 mandates that employers must ensure the health and safety of all workers working for t...
June 22, 2016
1202 - General Meeting
DATE: Wednesday, July 27, 2016
TIME: 5:30 p.m. – General Meeting
PLACE: BCGEU North Island Area Office
106-1650 Terminal Ave N, Nanaimo
The meeting will commence at 5:30 p.m. (dinner provided). If you cannot attend, or are from an area that is more remote, please feel free to join us by phone. Call: 1-866-562-0090 Conference ID: 986794
It is i...
June 20, 2016
BCGEU celebrates the 20th National Aboriginal Day
On June 21, 1996 the federal government declared the first National Aboriginal Day. Since that time, the BCGEU has joined the celebrations and the calls for increased support and recognition of Aboriginal peoples across Canada.
Over the course of those 20 years, Aboriginal peoples in Canada have fought for and won many advancements and reinforcements of their rights – sometimes through govern...
June 20, 2016
BCGEU demands freedom for Iranian trade unionists
In solidarity with the Free Them Now campaign to free jailed workers in Iran, the BCGEU sent two letters demanding the release of Jafar Azimzadeh and other jailed trade union leaders. Click here to read the general solidarity letter, and click here for the the more specific letter.
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