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July 18, 2025
Public service workers to take strike vote following impasse - BC General Emp...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2025
VICTORIA, B.C. – Over 34,000 members of the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) working for B.C.’s public service will prepare to take a strike vote following a breakdown in negotiations for their next collective agreement. The union and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA) reached an impasse today over key issues, including competiti...
July 18, 2025
TODAY: BCGEU update on public service negotiations - BC General Employees' Un...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 18, 2025
VICTORIA, B.C. – BCGEU president and public service bargaining committee chair Paul Finch will hold a press conference today to update media on recent developments in negotiations between the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA).
The BCGEU will also be releasing a new report, B.C.'s public service:...
July 17, 2025
All Area 04 Members -Cultural and Carnival Day August 9, 2025 - BC General Em...
To: All Area 04 BCGEU membersRe: Cultural & Carnival Day Event August 9, 2025
The Area 04 Cross Component invites you and your family for a cultural and carnival celebration taking place at our Fraser Valley Office!
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2025Place: 8555 198 A Street, Langley BC V2Y 0A9 (Fraser Valley Area Office)Time: 11 am – 3 pm The goal of this event is to bring together the rich...
July 17, 2025
BC Housing Management Commission — Maintenance/Service (Maintenance) Division...
New Bargaining Committee Chair AND Nominations for BCHMC Maintenance Bargaining Committee
At the close of nominations Doreen Aquino had been nominated for the Bargaining Committee Chair. Doreen has therefore been acclaimed as the Bargaining Committee Chair. Congratulations Doreen!
This leaves one position on the bargaining committee unfilled and open. Doreen and Jeevn Atwal are now the Bargaini...
July 11, 2025
July 12—Honouring the Brooklyn Tower Crane Collapse Workers and Opening of Me...
This July 12 marks four years since the devastating Brooklyn Tower crane collapse in downtown Kelowna-a tragedy that took the lives of five workers: Patrick Stemmer, Eric Stemmer, Cailen Vilness, Brad Zawislak, and Jared Zook. Each of them went to work that morning and didn't come home. And each of them deserves to be remembered-not just for how they died, but for who they were and the communi...
July 07, 2025
BC Housing Management Commission - Nominations for BCHMC Maintenance Bargaini...
Markiel Simpson, the Bargaining Committee Chair has accepted a position with the B.C. Sheriff Service and has therefore resigned his position as Bargaining Committee Chair. We thank Markiel for his leadership and service while he was Chair and wish him every success in the B.C. Sheriff Service.
Markiel's resignation demands that nominations be re-opened for both the Bargaining Committee Chair a...
June 28, 2025
Remembering the Stonewall Uprising - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)
A Statement from BCGEU's Executive Vice-President and Chair of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Committee Tristen Wybou“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” ~ Marsha P. Johnson
When you think Americana, you probably don’t think of the Stonewall Inn – the gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich village that was raided by police on this day in 1969, famously catalyzing a multi-day resistance to stat...
June 27, 2025
MEDIA RELEASE - BCGEU Condemns Violent Incident at MLA Bowinn Ma’s Constituen...
MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BCGEU Condemns Violent Incident at MLA Bowinn Ma's Constituency Office
Burnaby, B.C. June 27, 2025 –
We are deeply disturbed by the violent incident that unfolded today in front of the constituency office of MLA Bowinn Ma. We are grateful to hear that no one was injured and that the BCGEU members working in this and other constituency offices across...
June 23, 2025
GCC Vancouver - Bargaining Update – Membership Feedback Sessions - BC Genera...
Your Bargaining Committee is gearing up for negotiations and your voice is essential to shaping what we fight for at the table.
Please feel free to drop in on June 27, 2025 to share your thoughts, ideas, and priorities in a pre‑bargaining feedback session.
This is your opportunity to share with us the improvements and changes you would like to see in our next collective agreement.
Who's Invited...
June 20, 2025
All Vancity members: Voting Information – Tentative Settlement - BC General E...
We have some critical updates about our tentative settlement. Many of you have been asking how and when you will get to cast your vote to accept or reject the tentative settlement as our next collective agreement. Your bargaining committee is recommending acceptance of the tentative settlement.
Below are the dates, events and information to expect over the next three weeks leading up to the ra...
June 19, 2025
Join us for Pride Events in Area 01 on June 22 and July 6! - BC General Emplo...
As we head into Pride, we are reminded that the first Pride was a collective uprising against injustice. It is in that spirit of solidarity and defiance that we mark this Pride season with our new theme:
Our Pride, Our Right, Our Future, Our Fight.
We hope you'll join us at one of the following Pride events in Area 01:
Cowichan Pride on Sunday, June 22
Victoria Pride on Sunday, July 6
To ...
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