NEWS & UPDATES
May 19, 2022
Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Limited (Starlight Casino) - Bargaining Co...
Please be advised that Kong William Wu has been acclaimed to the Starlight bargaining committee position for table games. We are awaiting the results of the ongoing election to round out the committee to four members Thank you to everyone for your participation in this important process.To help ensure that you receive a copy of future updates, please provide a personal email address to the BCGE...
May 18, 2022
All BCGEU Members at Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Limited (Starlight Cas...
An election is required for the Starlight Bargaining Committee. A balloting package is being mailed to each member for whom the Union has a current home mailing address. You will receive a ballot. If you do not receive a ballot in the mail by Friday , June 2nd please email [email protected] so that we can arrange to send a ballot to you.
At the close of nominations for your bargai...
May 17, 2022
Hard Rock Casino - Election of Bargaining Committee Members - BC General Empl...
An election is required for the Hard Rock Casino Bargaining Committee. A balloting package is being mailed to each member for whom the Union has a current home mailing address. You will receive a ballot. If you do not receive a ballot in the mail by Tuesday, May 31 please email [email protected] so that we can arrange to send a ballot to you.
At the close of nominations for your b...
May 16, 2022
Vancity members - Wage adjustment - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
By now, all members should have learned about your employer's decision to increase the annual base salaries by 3 per cent to take effect July 1, 2022.BCGEU President Stephanie Smith was pleased to grant the union's approval to allow Vancity to apply the increase to all members. It is likely welcome news as members have been struggling with the rising cost of living. It appears that your employe...
May 13, 2022
All BCGEU Food and Beverage Members at Elements Casino Victoria - Nomination...
Please talk amongst yourselves and nominate co-workers for these important positions. Nominations are now open for the F&B Bargaining Committee, as per below:
Food & Beverage (F&B) – two positions are open
Only a BCGEU member in the F&B department can nominate a candidate for the bargaining committee and the candidate must be from the F&B department. If more than two candi...
May 09, 2022
BCGEU sues Vancity over pension dispute - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
(Burnaby) - On April 27, the B.C. General Employees' Union (BCGEU) filed a Notice of Civil Claim in B.C. Supreme Court against Vancity Credit Union over the financial institution's unilateral decision to deny BCGEU members a jointly-trusteed, defined benefit pension plan that they had agreed to establish. "Filing a lawsuit against an employer is an extraordinary step for any union to take, and ...
May 06, 2022
All BCGEU Members at Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Limited (Starlight Cas...
Nominations closed at 5:00pm on Friday, April 29, 2022. There was at least one nomination missed in the earlier bulletin and this bulletin should be considered to be a preliminary report only with a final report on nominations coming out next week.
The four (4) positions available received nominations as follows:one member from Table Games
Kong William Wu
one member from Food and Beverage (R...
May 06, 2022
All BCGEU Members at Gateway Casinos and Entertainment Limited (Starlight Cas...
Nominations closed at 5:00pm on Friday, April 29, 2022.
The four (4) positions available received nominations as follows:
one member from Table Games
Kong William Wu - acclaimed to committee
one member from Food and Beverage (Restaurant and Kitchen classifications)
Jasbir Aujla - acclaimed to committee
one member from the Slot department, or Cash Cage
Shannon Kyne
Davinder Yadeta
one ...
May 06, 2022
BCGEU conducts strike vote for 33K members of the provincial public service -...
VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) is conducting a provincewide strike vote to give 33,000 members of their public service bargaining unit a voice in how to move forward in bargaining with their employer, the Public Service Agency. Negotiations between the parties reached impasse in early April primarily due to a significant gap in wage proposals. “We’ve been clear from da...
May 05, 2022
Over 70% of Independent Loblaw Shareholders Demand Supplier Audit Transparenc...
Over 70% of Independent Loblaw Shareholders Demand Supplier Audit Transparency
Union-filed shareholder motion earns significant support
Burnaby — Today, at the Loblaw (TSX: L) annual general meeting of shareholders, independent shareholders voted 72% in favour of a shareholder proposal asking for the company to release more information on supplier audits (34% overall). The shareholder prop...
May 04, 2022
Red Dress Day 2022 Events - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
Today the BCGEU recognizes Red Dress Day Red Dress day is a day to honour our missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people. This day first began on May 5, 2010 and has taken place annually every year since. It's a day to raise awareness and give voice to those whose stories have not been heard. We hang red dresses in public and private spaces and also wear red on this d...
May 04, 2022
Bargaining Committee Election for Hard Rock Casino - BC General Employees' U...
At the close of nominations, eight members were nominated to fill three positions for the Hard Rock Casino bargaining committee. This means voting is required. The nominated members are:Germaine Bourasaw Geoff KayJim Davies Katherine WiebeMatty Ruston Mark ChunUmesh Kumar Steven ChumIn addition, fou...
April 30, 2022
Happy May Day – we’re now 85,000 members strong - BC General Employees' Union...
May Day – or International Workers' Day – is a day in which the labour movement around the world comes together to recognize working people's collective power. Only by organizing to protect our collective interests as a class can we shift the balance of power under capitalism.
As we celebrate working people, we're also proud to announce that our union is now 85,000 members strong!
Our union has...
April 29, 2022
Union investor successfully pushes Toronto’s Thomson Reuters to prioritize hu...
Union investor successfully pushes Toronto's Thomson Reuters to prioritize human rights and re-evaluate ICE contracts
Canadian media and data giant to adopt United Nations human rights framework and publish a human rights report after 3-year investor battle
(Burnaby, Canada) Thomson Reuters' enabling of U.S. immigration surveillance prompted the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)-a minor sha...
April 28, 2022
Our union has filed a lawsuit against Vancity - BC General Employees' Union (...
In the last round of bargaining, you won a jointly trusteed defined benefit plan. But, after our union worked diligently with your employer to develop your plan, Vancity unilaterally broke its commitment.We attempted to resolve this matter through labour arbitration, but Vancity argued that this is not a matter of labour law.After months of getting nowhere with Vancity, our union fi...
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