NEWS & UPDATES
April 01, 2022
All BCGEU members – Local 1710, Lake View Credit Union - Bargaining Committee...
Nominations for a member for your Bargaining Committee closed on March 31, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. The following members are now your Bargaining Committee:
Kaitlin Fritz – Bargaining Committee Member
Carolyn Reeves – Bargaining Committee Member
Danika Boyer – Bargaining Committee Chair
Please join me in congratulating your new Bargaining Committee for Lake View Credit Union.
In solidarity
Ang...
March 30, 2022
Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Limited (Starlight Casino) - Call for Barga...
We are calling for nominations to sit on the Bargaining Committee for the upcoming round of negotiations with your Employer. The current agreement expires on March 31, 2022, however all rights continue while bargaining is ongoing.
There are Four (4) positions available:
one member from Table Games
one member from Food and Beverage (Restaurant and Kitchen classifications)
one member from the Sl...
March 29, 2022
BCGEU librarians still without offer, all to strike with pickets at targeted ...
BURNABY, B.C. (COAST SALISH TERRITORIES) – After more than a week without an offer from their employer, members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) working as librarians for the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) are escalating their job action. As of 7:00 am Wednesday, March 30th, all BCGEU members working as VIRL employees will be on strike. In person and virtual services at all ...
March 25, 2022
BCGEU and PSA head back to the table - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
VICTORIA, B.C. – Negotiations between the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA) will be resuming after a 15 day break. The current agreement between the parties, which covers more than 32,000 union members, expires on March 31, 2022. "We always say 'where there's talk, there's hope" so getting invited back to the table is definitely posi...
March 25, 2022
Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited (Grand Villa Casino) - 2nd and 3rd we...
The second and partial third week of negotiations has wrapped up at the Delta Hotel (Grand Villa), Burnaby. Bargaining took place from March 15th to 18th and again on March 21st. At the end of the week, monetary proposals were exchanged. Initial discussions continued regarding these proposals and continued through Monday and, while we are significantly apart, we continue to work at narrowing th...
March 23, 2022
All BCGEU Component 17 Members at Alliance Facility Solutions Inc. (AFSI) - C...
Your BCGEU Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce the results of the recent ratification vote, with 85% voting in favour of adopting the tentative collective agreement!
Your Bargaining Committee would like to thank you for your patience and ongoing support throughout this lengthy process. Please feel free to contact one of us with any questions.
Randy Loberg, Bargaining Committee Chair...
March 22, 2022
Stephanie Smith on CKNW's Mike Smyth show to talk bargaining - BC General Emp...
This morning, BCGEU President and Chair of the BCGEU Public Service Bargaining Committee spoke with CKNW's Michael Smyth about public service bargaining. "What we're looking for and what we think is very reasonable are cost of living adjustments… Our members over the last two years have learned their worth, they know their value, they know their contributions to our province, and they know that...
March 21, 2022
BCGEU Statement on CFNU re-admitting BCNU - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
BCGEU Statement on CFNU re-admitting BCNU
Recently, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) announced their plan to re-admit the BC Nurses Union (BCNU) into their union, more than a decade after they left the CFNU because of raiding activities in our province.
BCNU raided our union, and other health care unions in BC, for several years in an attempt to build their own power at the expen...
March 17, 2022
BCGEU librarians expand pickets and escalate job action - BC General Employee...
BURNABY, B.C. (COAST SALISH TERRITORIES) – Members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) working as librarians for the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) are escalating their job action starting Friday, March 18th in an ongoing effort to get the VIRL Board to issue a new wage mandate. “We’ve said from the beginning—librarians don’t want to be on picket lines in front of their librari...
March 15, 2022
All BCGEU Members at Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited (Grand Villa Cas...
The first week of Negotiations wrapped up at the Delta Hotel (Grand Villa), Burnaby, after exchanging non-monetary bargaining packages with your employer. Bargaining took place from March 8th – 11th. So far, discussions have been productive.
This week we are scheduled to bargain from Today until Friday (March 15-18th). We will be continuing non-monetary discussions and, depending on our progres...
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