NEWS & UPDATES
July 06, 2016
BC Pavilion Corporation ratification balloting location
Your bargaining committee will be setting-up voting on the following dates and time:
Date: July 7, 2016
Time: 3:30 pm – 1 hour after end of game
Location: 447
Date: July 8, 2016
Time: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: To be announced on Thursday
Date: July 9, 2016
Time: 4:00 pm – 1 hour after end of game
Location: 447
Please drop by before your shift, after the game or du...
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
Addition to ratification for BC PavCo
Please see below the addition made in the attached ratification.
Download PDF of ratification here.
UNIFOR467/MoveUP
June 30, 2016
North Peace Cultural Centre ratification of collective agreement
We are pleased to announce the members of Local 1710, North Peace Cultural Centre ratified their tentative agreement on Wednesday June 29th, 2016.
Congratulations to the Bargaining committee for all your hard work!
In solidarity
Susanne Currie, Bargaining Chair
Gabrielle Beauchemin, Bargaining Committee Member
Angie Panoulias, Staff Representative
UNIFOR467/MoveUP
June 29, 2016
City of Fort St. John - Sick bank
Dear Brothers and Sisters
The union is sending out this information to ensure all of the members who work for the City of Fort St. John are aware of the procedure for applying to the sick bank, if it is required.
We are also looking for new members to join the sick bank committee.
The procedure to apply for time out of the Union Sick Bank is as follows:
1) If an employee is sick, he or...
June 29, 2016
BC Milk Marketing Board tentative agreement
The parties have reached a tentative agreement and the bargaining committee is recommending acceptance on the deal. The committee bargained over a three-day period (June 6, 7 and 21).
Details of the ratification are:
Date: Tuesday, July 12
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: BC Milk Marketing Board – Minter Street boardroom
Details of the tentative agreement will be discussed at the meeting. If you are...
June 29, 2016
North Peace Cultural Centre ratification meeting
We send this bulletin to update the membership about the Collective Bargaining process between the union and the North Peace Cultural Centre.
We are pleased to announce we have reached a tentative settlement.
Details of the proposed settlement will be released at a ratification meeting, being held at the Cultural Centre on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.
Members will vote on the tentat...
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 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
Security, Culinary and Shippers/Receivers at River Rock Casino Resort call fo...
Nominations are now open for two positions – one from each department:
Culinary and Shippers & Receivers – one position
Security and Security Supervisors – one position
Only a BCGEU member in a department can nominate another member in the same department. If more than one candidate in a department is nominated, there will be an election in that department. Only members working in t...
June 21, 2016
Town of Gibsons call for nominations for bargaining committee
Your collective agreement is set to expire on December 31, 2016. It is now time to elect a bargaining committee to represent you in negotiations with your employer.
Call for nominations for:
• One (1) Bargaining Unit Chair
• Two (2) Bargaining Committee Members
As per the relevant language in the collective agreement:
7.2 Union Bargaining Committees
A union bargaining committee shall b...
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.
June 20, 2016
Call for nominations for vacant Local 1702 Executive position
Nominations are now open for Recording Secretary position which is vacant on the Local 1702 Executive:
The term is three years.
The role of the Recording Secretary is as follows:
assists Local chairperson with responsibilities outlined above
with the chair, sets meeting dates and develops agendas
is responsible for all meeting notices and minutes
Reports all correspondence at Local meet...
June 20, 2016
Local 1702 union meeting
DATE: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
TIME: 5:30 p.m. – Executive Meeting
6:00 p.m. – General Meeting
PLACE: Union Bay Credit Union
313 McLeod Road, Union Bay
AGENDA
General Business
Nominations for the position of Recording Secretary and closure of nominations/election to follow if required.
Please come out and meet your BCGEU Local 1702 Executives and bring your questio...
June 20, 2016
BC Place Tentative Settlement
Your BCGEU bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement with your employer, BC Place. Details on the ratification process are still being worked on. We’ll get you that information soon along with details of proposed collective agreement.
In Solidarity
Dave MacDonald, Bargaining Committee Chair
Barry Cameron, Bargaining Committee Member
Nadine Gagnon, Bargaining Committee Member
Kevi...
June 16, 2016
Study english before or after work
Free - English as a Second Language classes for BCGEU members. For more information please click the PDF's below.
Download PDF of notice here.
Download PDF of notice here (chinese translation).
UNIFOR467/MoveUP
June 16, 2016
River Rock Casino Resort update on bargaining
The BCGEU and River Rock management met on June 10th to table proposal packages for a first collective agreement. Comprehensive packages have been tabled by both parties, although the monetary issues will not be addressed until after the non-monetary issues have been considered.
Negotiations have moved slowly so far as there is a lot of detail to work through on the non-monetary items. The par...
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