Component 17 includes members in a variety of sectors in B.C.
They are employed by casinos, hotels, banks, credit unions, B.C. Place, B.C. Housing Management, some Royal Canadian Legion operations, B.C. Milk Marketing Board, Compass Foods, regional districts plus private businesses.
The election for the Bargaining Committee is finished and the ballots are counted with the following results:
Lilian Lagasca
Lynda Wines
Cherry Huang **Bargaining Unit Chairperson
Plans for a caucus meeting in early January are underway. To help ensure you receive future updates, please provide a personal email address to the BCGEU at http://www.bcgeu.ca/update. You can use the same form to ...
BCGEU KAMLOOPS AREA OFFICEINTERNAL POSTINGDecember 13, 2023
POSITION: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT – Kamloops Area Office
GRADE: LEVEL 5 - MoveUP AGREEMENT
WAGE RATE: $34.67 - $37.30 per hour
An Administrative Assistant is required to provide administrative support to the staff representatives in the Kamloops Area Office, located in Kamloops, BC. Term of assignme...
During the last call for nominations the Union did not receive any nomination forms, so we are re-opening nominations for your bargaining committee. Electing the union’s bargaining committee is the first important step to starting negotiations on your new collective agreement. Your collective agreement expired on June 30, 2023, and your Union needs your help and participation to start the barga...
Friends,Please join us in congratulating newly appointed bargaining committee chairperson, Samantha Moskie. Please also join us in welcoming our newest members, the Securities Administrators. As many of you are aware, your collective agreement will expire December 31st. We are sending this update as we imagine there are questions about the process.There are normally four stages to bargaining.1....
Friends,Please join us in congratulating newly appointed bargaining committee chairperson, Samantha Moskie. Please also join us in welcoming our newest members, the Securities Administrators. As many of you are aware, your collective agreement will expire December 31st. We are sending this update as we imagine there are questions about the process.There are normally four stages to bargaining.1....
December 6th marks the 34th anniversary of the École Polytechnique Massacre, which occurred on December 6, 1989, in Montreal. The perpetrator, fueled by misogynistic beliefs, took the lives of 14 young women that day. Three decades later, the impact of this horrific act of violence continues to reverberate through the ongoing struggle against gender-based violence. The risk of harassment and vi...
Steward nominations closed December 1, 2023 at 5:00pm for the City of Fort St. John. The following are your newly acclaimed Stewards for the City of Fort St. John: Aaron Lovett Kyrra DemersPlease join us in welcoming them in their role as worksite Steward!In Solidarity,Tennille PennerStaff RepresentativeDownload PDF of notice here
UWU/MoveUP
The election of your Bargaining Committee has now been scheduled as follows:• Dates & Times:o Saturday, December 9th from 10:00 am to 6:00 pmo Sunday, December 10th from 10:00 am to 6:00 pmo Monday, December 11th from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm• Location: the Rockteria at River Rock (staff break room)There are three eligible candidates for two available...
The election of the Bargaining Committee members closed on November 23, 2023, at 4 pm and we are pleased to announce that the following are your newly elected Bargaining Committee members:
Les Dornbierer
Erin Johnson
Treena Martin
Please join the Union in congratulating them on their new roles!
We also want to thank all the candidates who were nominated and the members who participated in th...
We're bargaining at BC Housing Home Office this week and next. We'll be in the third floor lunchroom during our lunch break (generally noon to 1pm). This week we'll be there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Next week we'll be there Monday and Friday (Dec 4 and 8). We'd love to meet you there.We continue to work on increasing our capacity to reach out to you to during this protracted round of bar...
BCGEU Secretary-Treasurer Paul Finch Issues Statement on Transgender Day of Remembrance
This past year we've seen a disturbing rise in hate-driven attacks on the transgender community. The BCGEU's solidarity with transgender, gender-diverse workers, and all 2SLGBQTI+ community members is necessary and urgent-it's a lifeline, it's central to our values, and it's important to the wellbeing of our...
Chartered banks are fourth and fifth to commit to independent assessment after successful shareholder engagement
BURNABY, B.C. | Nov. 14, 2023 – In back-to-back announcements, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Bank of Montreal (BMO) announced commitments to conduct independent racial equity audits, making them the fourth and fifth Canadian chartered banks to do so. These announcements come after ...
Nominations for the bargaining committee are now closed, and we have three nominations for two available positions:
Saxon Wang
Lilian Lagasca
Lynda Wines
Plans for the election process are underway and will be provided soon, along with copies of the biographies presented by the candidates.
To help ensure you receive a ballot and future bargaining updates, please provide a personal email add...
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