Component 4 includes members who provide health care and related services.
They provide nursing care, personal care, housekeeping, building maintenance, laundry, activities, dietary, security and rehabilitation services at institutional and long-term-care facilities, as well as medical lab and a variety of other services for other employers.
Today's announcement by the provincial government that B.C.'s minimum wage will reach $15.20 per hour on June 1, 2021 is disappointing, both to the BCGEU and to the 20 per cent of B.C.'s workers who make less than $15 per hour. We think that the provincial government should take action to reduce poverty and inequality in our province by increasing the minimum wage to $15 immediately, as we stat...
I am pleased to advise you that the members at Guildford Seniors Village voted to ratify the renewal collective agreement with a vote of 98% in favour of acceptance. The next steps are for a draft collective agreement to be produced and proofed by the bargaining committee, union and the employer. Once the parties agree that the draft is accurate the employer will process your wage increases and...
Meeting Place: BW Westerly, Courtenay Date: March 14, 2018 Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Re: Union Bargaining Committee Call for Nominations and Bargaining Committee Elections
The Parties' collective agreement is approaching expiry and therefore the BCGEU is moving forward this notice with the appropriate nomination forms attached to it for your use. A meeting has been set to close nominations and t...
The call for nominations for Local 412 Local Executive closed. We confirm that your new Executive is as follows:
Local ChairpersonChristine Fuller
1st Vice Chair:Keeley Dancey
2nd Vice Chair:Lana Roy
Treasurer:Tracy Garcia
Recording Secretary:Bobbi Burrus
Member at Large:Emily Boot
Member at Large:Micheala Dodds
Member at Large (Young Worker):Sydnee Powers
...
TO: 401 Facilities Agreement Members & Health Science Professionals MembersDATE: Thursday, March 1, 2018TIME: 6:00 pmPLACE: BCGEU Victoria Area Office 2994 Douglas St 1st floor Auditorium
This is a meeting to nominate and elect members who would like to become delegates for the Facilities Agreement and Health Sciences Professionals Agreement Bargaining C...
The BCGEU welcomes the provincial government's announcement earlier this week that they have appointed a committee of special advisers to review the provincial labour code. This review is a good first step in the process of restoring fairness to both the labour code and the BC Labour Relations Board.
The code review panel will be consulting with stakeholders around B.C. before reporting back to...
The nomination period for the local 405 executive closed on February 5, 2018. The following positions have been acclaimed:
Chairperson:Clare Audet
Treasurer:Vacant - No nominations received
1st Vice Chairperson:Vacant - No nominations received
Recording Secretary:Vacant - No nominations received
2nd Vice Chairperson:Joan Reiswig
4 Members-at-Large:Josie Froste3 Vacant
1 Member-at-Large Youn...
Your collective agreement will expire on April 30, 2018 and the Union is preparing for the upcoming bargaining. The election of your bargaining committee is underway and your bargaining committee needs your input to set priorities to take to the bargaining table. Members are being asked to fill out the enclosed bargaining questionnaire now and return it by March 7, 2018 to provide input and dir...
The B.C. NDP government has taken its first significant step to close the wide and persistent gap between the reality of basic support for seniors in residential care and the province's target. Officially, that target is an average 3.36 hours of personal care per patient, per day. In practical terms, that means getting two baths a week instead of one, or being escorted with a walker to the dini...
Hard Rock Casino workers vote to strikeAn astounding 99.5% vote in favour of strike actionMembers of the BC Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) working at Hard Rock Casino in Coquitlam voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action against their employer this week.In a vote held from February 1-4, over 90% of Hard Rock staff came out and voted 99.5% in favour of taking strik...
Your committee has met to review issues and develop bargaining proposals. Collective agreement negotiations with the Employer are scheduled to begin February 8 and 9. Your committee has worked hard to represent a broad range of issues and we are looking forward to securing a fair and reasonable deal. Please continue to check your union bulletin board for bargaining updates. To ensure you receiv...
The nomination process for your Local Executive positions closed on February 2, 2018, and we want to take this opportunity to advise you of the results and congratulate the successful candidates.
Congratulations to Sherry Ogasawara (Local Chair), Kathy Pereira (Local 1st Vice Chair).Your Executive with the results are as follows:
Chair
Sherry Ogasawara
1st Vice Chair
Kathy Pereira
...
The new retail cannabis regulations announced by the B.C. government leaves B.C.'s liquor stores well-positioned to provide safe, secure, reliable access to non-medical cannabis products, the Responsible Marijuana Retail Alliance of BC (RMRABC) said today. While the government chose not to allow the sale of alcohol and cannabis in the same store, because of federal recommendations against co-lo...
British Columbia's Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, released her annual Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory this week, providing information about the almost 300 publicly subsidized residential care facilities in the province.
Perhaps the most alarming finding in the report is that 85 per cent of B.C.'s residential-care homes fail to meet the government's own minimum staffing ...
As the new NDP government prepares to introduce their first full budget on February 20, the BCGEU used the opportunity to restate our union's budget priorities in a letter to B.C.
Finance Minister Carole James:
Dear Minister,
Re Priorities for the upcoming B.C. Budget 2018/2019
Thank you for the opportunity to share our members' observations and priorities in the lead-up to B.C. Budget 2018...
FREE PUBLIC SKATE
Every year, the Cross Component Committee (CCC) of the BCGEU is pleased to celebrate the BC Family Day with free public skates throughout the Okanagan.
Here are the locations, dates and times for this year:
Sunday, Feb. 11thHassen Memorial Arena3315 Pleasant Valley RdArmstrong3:45pm - 5:45pm
Sunday, Feb. 11thJim Lind Arena2760 Cameron RdWest Kelowna1:30pm – 4:00pm
Monday, Feb....
On behalf of the members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union I offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Lorraine Logan who passed away on January 23, 2018. An activist through and through, and right up until the end, she was a champion of workers' rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights and seniors' rights.
Lorraine Logan grew up in Vancouver. Her family was smal...
Ballots cast at the strike vote on January 30th have been counted and members have provided the Bargaining Committee with a resounding vote
100% in favour
of taking strike action if needed. We have advised the Employer of the result of the vote, and will continue to update members as information becomes available. There are a number of steps that will need to be taken prior to any job action...
In this issue, we look at a variety of topics to keep you up-to-date on issues that could affect your workplace, and the members you represent. Topics include the duty to accommodate and how it may arise through discrimination based on disability or family status; the employer's legal duty to protect members from harassment on the employer's social media platforms; the employee's duty to mitiga...
At the close of nominations we received 9 nominations for BCGEU positions on the Facilities bargaining committee. Dates have not been set to begin negotiations however the elected members will be required to caucus with the BCGEU bargaining committee soon after the elections are completed to help develop bargaining proposals, in addition they will be expected to attend the BCGEU Facilities Barg...
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