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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...
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 ...
June 19, 2025
BGC South Vancouver Island - Results of Voting – Part-Time Statutory Holiday ...
There was an online vote regarding the method for paid holidays for part-time employees at BGC South Vancouver Island (as per Article 17.11 in the Collective Agreement). The choice was to opt into a paid holiday time bank based on 5.0% of your regular straight-time hours worked, OR alternatively, receive an additional 5.0% of straight-time pay on each paycheque. Members have voted for part-time...
June 17, 2025
Election Results for Bargaining Committee for Pacifica Housing Advisory Asso...
Thanks for your active participation in the election process for your bargaining committee. Thanks especially to those who allowed their names to stand for nomination. Your participation in the process has ensured a fulsome democratic process of elections.
The election closed today at noon. The three candidates with the most votes and fulfil the criteria of at least one committee member from ea...
June 12, 2025
Nominations for Encompass Support Services Society Stewards - BC General Empl...
Nominations are now open for stewards at Encompass Support Services Society and will close at 5:00 pm on June 26, 2025. Stewards are the primary representatives of members and have an important role within the Union. Some of the roles of a steward are:
Helping co-workers interpret and understand their collective agreement.
Supporting co-workers in meetings with management.
Listening to co-work...
June 12, 2025
Ann Davis Transition Society - Nominations for Stewards - BC General Employee...
Nominations are now open for stewards at Ann Davis Transition Society and will close at 5:00pm on June 26, 2025.
Stewards are the primary representatives of members and have an important role within the Union. Some of the roles of a steward are:
Helping co-workers interpret and understand their collective agreement.
Supporting co-workers in meetings with management.
Listening to co-workers ab...
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