NEWS & UPDATES
January 08, 2020
Sunset Child Care Society - Bargaining committee election results - BCGEU
I am please to advise that Tanis Sawtell and Kirsten Ginter have been acclaimed to your bargaining committee.
The bargaining committee will be meeting in the near future to review your bargaining questionnaires to develop bargaining proposals to present to the Employer once bargaining dates have been determined.
A copy of the bargaining survey is attached. Please complete the bargaining survey ...
January 02, 2020
YMCA/YWCA Tentative Collective Agreement Ratification Meeting - BCGEU
Your Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce that a tentative settlement has been reached with the Employer after 5 months at the bargaining table. All of the items that you wanted fixed have been addressed, in almost every case to the complete satisfaction of the bargaining committee,- wages, the amount of bargaining unit work done by excluded staff, and fair transparent processes for job ...
January 02, 2020
Sunshine Valley Child Care Society - News on bargaining - BCGEU
The Employer has advised that an accounting firm is reviewing their financials and hope to have a response to us sometime in the week of January 6th. It is their hope to find additional resources so they can come back to the table with another offer.
Until that time, we are putting any further strike action on hold.
You will be kept updated as to our bargaining meeting dates and a membership me...
December 19, 2019
Winter maintenance and public safety a top priority for BCGEU highway workers...
On behalf of members employed by Acciona Infrastructure Maintenance Inc., the BC Government & Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) is calling on the company to ensure they meet the highway maintenance standards agreed to in their 10-year contract with the provincial government. This follows an incident last week in Cherryville B.C. where a school bus became stuck in a ditch due to snowy road co...
December 18, 2019
Grand Forks childcare professionals launch one-day strike - BCGEU
WHAT: After issuing a 72-hour strike notice on Friday of last week, 14 members of the BC Government & Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) employed by Sunshine Valley Child Care are set to strike for one day on Thursday December 19, 2019. The move comes after several months of unsuccessful negotiations for a new collective agreement that will address long-standing issues with substandard wages,...
December 09, 2019
Steward Election Results - Surrey Hospital Child Care Society - BCGEU
Please be advised that Jeanine Erickson has been elected into the positions of Steward.
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the process.
Congratulations and welcome Jeanine.
In solidarity,
Tamara Peterson Sarah Georgetti
L 304 Chairperson Staff Representative
Download PDF of Notice HereUWU/MoveUP
December 09, 2019
MEDIA RELEASE: BCGEU applauds new agency to make work safer for health care w...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dec. 9, 2019BCGEU applauds new agency to make work safer for health care workers The BC Government & Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) applauds the B.C. government's commitment of $8.5 million over three years to build an independent provincial occupational health and safety agency to address the high rate of injury in the health care sector. "The BCGEU represents thous...
December 09, 2019
April 1 2020: Mileage, Wages, Low Wage Redress - BCGEU
Improvement in Mileage Allowance, 2% General Wage Increase and $20 Million Low Wage Redress effective April 1, 2020
Mileage Allowance
Mileage reimbursement rate will increase by one (1) cent per kilometer, effective April 1, 2020, for Community Living Services, General Services and Indigenous Services Collective Agreements.
2.0% General Wage Increase + $20 Million Low Wage Redress (LWR)
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December 06, 2019
Members at UBC Child Care Services Program - Bargaining Update - BCGEU
We met with the employer yesterday and we continue to work through some challenging items. We continue to maintain the priorities you put before us and we are trying to find our way to common ground. By early next week, we hope to confirm a further day of bargaining in mid-January 2020, as we continue to work towards a tentative agreement.
We will keep you updated as we continue through this pr...
December 06, 2019
Remembering l’Ecole Polytechnique - 30 years later - BCGEU
December 6, 1989 was a Wednesday like any other: I spent the day at the childcare centre I worked at surrounded by kids and my colleagues. I found out about the massacre at l'Ecole Polytechnique on the radio while I was driving home that evening.
I was shocked and devastated at the news. Having been raised in a strongly feminist family, the idea that 14 women had been singled out and killed by ...
December 03, 2019
BCGEU met with Health Minister Dix - Forensic Psychiatric Hospital - BCGEU
Yesterday your worksite Union representatives, along BCGEU president Stephanie Smith met with provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix.
We discussed a number of issues with Minister Dix regarding BCGEU members working at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, including the number of serious injuries to our members, staffing levels, program closures, heavy workload, forensic pay and wage issues, parti...
December 03, 2019
The Provincial – Fall 2019 - BCGEU
Check out the latest, redesigned issue of The Provincial.
This issue has updates on how our union's work on investing ethically, a number of recent conferences and workshops to strengthen our union, and the guidelines on electoral campaigns for our upcoming Convention 2020.
UWU/MoveUP
December 02, 2019
Members at The Salvation Army Gateway of Hope - Your First Collective Agreem...
We are pleased to announce that a draft version of your first collective agreement is now available!
Copies of the final version of the collective agreement will be made available at the worksite, as soon as the agreements are fully signed by both parties.
Thank you again for your all of your patience and support throughout this process. We could not have done this without you.
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