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13 - INDIGENOUS SECTOR

Component 13 includes members who work for employers that exist primarily to serve Indigenous populations.  

Employers include housing providers, schools, school boards and colleges, advocacy resources, children and family services, courtworkers, health services, and friendship centres. 

Read here for more about this component, its locals and members, and how it came to be.

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NEWS & UPDATES

August 20, 2025

BCGEU Donates $20,000 to World Food Programme Supporting Sudan - BC General E...

BCGEU Donates $20,000 to World Food Programme Supporting Sudan The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is one of the world's worst and most underreported. Millions of people are facing hunger, violence, and displacement. At our last convention, BCGEU members passed a resolution committing our union to shine a light on this crisis and stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan. As part of that commit...

August 19, 2025

BCGEU donates $20,000 to U.N. World Food Programme Palestine Emergency Appeal...

BCGEU stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who are facing alarming levels of famine and starvation.      As the devastating famine continues to unfold, more than half a million Gazans are on the brink of starvation and the rest are enduring emergency levels of hunger. Based on the recommendation of its international solidarity advisory committee, the BCGEU provincial executive has vote...

August 14, 2025

BCGEU calls on B.C. government to repeal Name Amendment Act restricting legal...

The BCGEU joins the chorus of voices across the province calling for a repeal to Bill 26, the Name Amendment Act (No 2) 2024, which restricts or bans access to legal name changes for people in B.C. and causes disproportionate harm to transgender and Indigenous folks, those fleeing domestic violence, and young people.    The amendments violate international and human rights law in the processing...

July 25, 2025

BCGEU Statement on Fort Langley Pride Crosswalk - BC General Employees' Union...

BCGEU Statement on Fort Langley Pride Crosswalk The BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) stands in full solidarity with the Langley Pride Society and 2SLGBTQIA+ community members in Fort Langley and beyond as the Township of Langley considers removing the Pride crosswalk located in the heart of the village. Council's motion to remove and relocate the crosswalk-under the guise of "heritage" and "...

July 18, 2025

Public service workers to take strike vote following impasse - BC General Emp...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2025  VICTORIA, B.C.  – Over 34,000 members of the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) working for B.C.’s public service will prepare to take a strike vote following a breakdown in negotiations for their next collective agreement. The union and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA) reached an impasse today over key issues, including competiti...

July 18, 2025

TODAY: BCGEU update on public service negotiations - BC General Employees' Un...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2025  VICTORIA, B.C.  – BCGEU president and public service bargaining committee chair Paul Finch will hold a press conference today to update media on recent developments in negotiations between the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA).  The BCGEU will also be releasing a new report, B.C.'s public service:...