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COMPONENT 3 - COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES

Component 3 includes members who work in community social services.

These caring professionals provide supports, services, and resources to vulnerable families and individuals across the province. They include supporting adults and children with developmental disabilities, women and children fleeing violence, youth-at-risk, child care, community justice services, Indigenous services, and employment services, among others. With over 15,000 workers in the sector, BCGEU is the largest community social services union in B.C.

NEWS & UPDATES

July 28, 2025

Dawson Creek Society for Community Living and South Peace Community Resources...

Bessy Solaman, Local 310 Chair and Christina Schindel, Local 310 Vice chair will be visiting members of Local 310 in Dawson Creek on August 19, times noted below. They will be touring the worksites to speak to the members and to update membership information. They will do their best to minimize workday interruptions but look forward to seeing you and hearing any questions you may have. Tuesday,...

July 28, 2025

Local 310 Worksite Visits – Dawson Creek - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

Bessy Solaman, Local 310 Chair, will be visiting members of Local 310 at Independence Networking Services Inc. on August 18, times noted below. They will be touring the worksites to speak to the members and to update membership information. They will do their best to minimize workday interruptions but look forward to seeing you and hearing any questions you may have. Monday, August 18: Indepen...

July 28, 2025

Local 310 Worksite Visits, Fort St. John - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

Bessy Solaman, Local 310 Chair and Christina Schindel, Local 310 Vice chair will be visiting members of Local 310 in Fort St. John on the dates noted below.  They will be touring the worksites to speak to the members and to update membership information. They will do their best to minimize workday interruptions but look forward to seeing you and hearing any questions you may have.    Wednesday,...

July 28, 2025

Local 310 Stewards and Local Executive - REMINDER BCGEU Enhanced Stewards' Tr...

**REMINDER**BCGEU Enhanced Stewards' TrainingStewards and Local Executives of Local 310  Where: BCGEU Peace River Area Office10147 100th Avenue, Fort St. JohnDate: August 21, 2025Time: 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Join us for a day of networking and learning! You will learn strategies and tools to help you with assisting members in your workplaces, while getting the opportunity to connect with fellow Ste...

July 25, 2025

Lii Michif Otipemisiwak, Family & Community Services Society - Preliminary Cl...

This communication provides BCGEU members with the preliminary classification results under the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP) for non-delegated jobs currently classified under the Community Social Services Joint Job Evaluation Plan (CSSJJEP).  Member meetings are scheduled for next week and can be found by reading the bulletin you received on July 29, 2025. A reminder bulletin...

July 25, 2025

Island Métis Family & Community Services Society - Preliminary Classification...

This communication provides BCGEU members with the preliminary classification results under the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP) for non-delegated jobs currently classified under the Community Social Services Joint Job Evaluation Plan (CSSJJEP).  Member meetings are scheduled for next week and can be found by reading the bulletin you received on July 29, 2025. A reminder bulletin...

July 25, 2025

Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society - Preliminary Classifi...

This communication provides BCGEU members with the preliminary classification results under the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP) for non-delegated jobs currently classified under the Community Social Services Joint Job Evaluation Plan (CSSJJEP).Member meetings are scheduled for next week and can be found by reading the bulletin you received on July 29, 2025. A reminder bulletin w...

July 25, 2025

Northwest Inter-Nation Family and Community Services Society - Preliminary Cl...

This communication provides BCGEU members with the preliminary classification results under the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP) for non-delegated jobs currently classified under the Community Social Services Joint Job Evaluation Plan (CSSJJEP). Member meetings are scheduled for next week and can be found by reading the bulletin you received on July 29, 2025. A reminder bulletin...

July 25, 2025

La Societe de les Enfants Michif - Preliminary Classifications under ISJEP - ...

This communication provides BCGEU members with the preliminary classification results under the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP) for non-delegated jobs currently classified under the Community Social Services Joint Job Evaluation Plan (CSSJJEP). Member meetings are scheduled for next week and can be found by reading the bulletin you received on July 29, 2025. A reminder bulletin ...

July 25, 2025

BCGEU Statement on Fort Langley Pride Crosswalk - BC General Employees' Union...

BCGEU Statement on Fort Langley Pride Crosswalk The BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) stands in full solidarity with the Langley Pride Society and 2SLGBTQIA+ community members in Fort Langley and beyond as the Township of Langley considers removing the Pride crosswalk located in the heart of the village. Council's motion to remove and relocate the crosswalk-under the guise of "heritage" and "...

July 25, 2025

Update on the Supportive Housing Transition - BC General Employees' Union (BC...

We have an important update about your employer's transition into the health sector. On July 10, 2025, the Minister of Finance formally signed an Order in Council declaring your employer and 38 other supportive housing agencies as "Health Employers." Following this declaration, our union met with representatives of the Health Employers' Association of BC (HEABC), which your employer is joining....

July 24, 2025

Victoria Cool Aid Society: Members in Food Services - We need your input! - ...

During negotiations with management for a labour adjustment plan we were met with a refusal to budge by senior leadership to reverse the wage loss for food services and maintenance.As a response our union agreed to allow the bumping process for food services.This was in order to follow collective agreement language and the spirit of our collective agreement, as jobs of the same classification (...

July 22, 2025

Indigenous Services Members - Preliminary Implementation of the Indigenous Se...

To: All BCGEU members covered by the Indigenous Services (IS) collective agreementRe: Preliminary Implementation of the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP)We are writing to inform you that the preliminary implementation of the Indigenous Services Job Evaluation Plan (ISJEP) is now underway. This marks an important step toward achieving wage parity with the Public Service for all wor...

July 18, 2025

BCGEU Members at The Cridge Centre for the Family - It’s time to nominate you...

Nominations are now open for three (3) shop steward positions in Local 301 at The Cridge Centre for the Family to replace the vacancy left by Cora Fingarsen. We would like to thank her for her service!The deadline for submission of nominations (click here for the form) is:   Sunday, August 17, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.   Please email your completed nominations to [email protected] or fax to 250-384-8060...

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 15, 2025

Who’s who? Meet the workers representing you! - BC General Employees' Union (...

Hi everyone 👋  You haven't heard from us in a few weeks, and we wanted to touch base. As you know, bargaining for our next collective agreement started late May. Since our last update, we've met with the Community Social Services Employers' Association multiple times. Progress on non-monetary proposals continues! While we don't have bargaining dates scheduled again until August, we'll be keepin...

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...

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...