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 tentative agreement between the BCGEU and BC Pavilion Corporation (BC Place) was ratified by a margin of 66% with a record number of votes cast.
Your bargaining committee thanks all those who took the time to come out and have your say on the tentative settlement. Work has already begun on the draft collective agreement and we expect to have a proofing copy to the employer in the next week...
Register now for the BCGEU Region 4 Women’s Conference, September 23-24, 2016 in Prince George. The Conference is open to all BCGEU women in Areas 06, 10, 11 & 12.
The Conference commences on Friday evening at 7:00 pm at the Ramada Hotel, 444 George St., Prince George with a panel session which will include a dynamic group of...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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