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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...
July 05, 2016
Only 7 full time park rangers patrol BC parks
B.C. parks down to 7 full-time rangers - CBC.ca - July 1, 2016
BC has just one full-time park ranger for every two million hectares - CKNW - June 30, 2016
Where are the rangers? - Castanet News - July 2, 2016
CBC BC TV News - July 2, 2016 (forward to 6:05)
July 01, 2016
B.C. parks down to 7 full-time rangers
Seven full-time park rangers are now responsible for patrolling 14 million hectares of protected areas in the province — an area larger than the size of Greece. Read more...
June 30, 2016
BC has just one full-time park ranger for every two million hectares: environ...
How can one person patrol two million hectares all by themselves? Read more...
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
Only 7 full time park rangers patrol 14 million hectares of protected areas i...
Further cuts results in just a handful of rangers overseeing an area the size of Denmark, Costa Rica and Switzerland combined
Check our BC Parks campaign page
Vancouver, BC – The number of full time (FT) park rangers in BC has sunk to a low of just 7 individuals who are expected to patrol 14 million hectares of protected areas. The number of full time rangers slumped from 27 positions in 2...
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 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 16, 2016
Canadians acknowledge contributions of public service workers
June 13-17 is Public Services Week in Canada. Coast to coast to coast, it’s a chance for Canadians to acknowledge the valuable contributions made by workers in the public service. Public services are central to the social and economic fabric of our communities, our province and our country.
Each and every one of us benefits from the contributions made by public services workers every day. They...
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