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April 24, 2017
Parksville Stabbing - BCGEU
Background
On January of 2015, a client with dementia stabbed a community health worker that was attending to his wife in their home. Fortunately for the worker, she reacted quickly by grabbing the knife out of his hand and threw it under the bed where he couldn’t reach it. This prevented further injury to her as she escaped the house. Also fortunately for the worker, the client’s dementia pre...
April 20, 2017
Let’s celebrate our Medical Laboratory Technologists! - BCGEU
Our health system depends on the professional work of thousands of medical laboratory technologists throughout the province. From blood samples to urine tests to tissue biopsies – laboratory medicine is a critical part of sustaining high quality health care, and millions of laboratory tests are performed in Canada every week.
The 2017 observance of Medical Laboratory Professionals Week emphasi...
April 19, 2017
Gordon Clark: Parties need to finally get serious about seniors care - BCGEU
You can hardly open a newspaper or news website these days without finding an article on the difficulties of the sandwich generation — those poor folks simultaneously coping with the needs of children and aging parents. Well, here’s another.
As editorial pages editor, I’ve published dozens of articles over the years on the concerns of the sandwich generation, particularly about the problems of...
April 18, 2017
LifeLabs - TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT REACHED - BCGEU
Date: April 18, 2017
To: All BCGEU Members at LifeLabs
Re: TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT REACHED
Your Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce that a tentative deal has been reached for a new collective agreement for members employed at LifeLabs.
The Bargaining Committee is recommending that you vote YES to accept the tentative renewal collective agreement.
Full details of the tenta...
April 13, 2017
Training Day -Labour Code OHS Committee Reps - BCGEU
Did you know you are entitled to annual education leave totaling at least 8 hours? Did you also know your employer is required to support this training without loss of pay or other benefits? The employer must cover the costs of the training and any other reasonable costs to attend the course. If you are unable to take the training yourself, you have the right to assign your 8 hour annual allot...
April 13, 2017
Quesnel Council Talks Marijuana - BCGEU
Quesnel City Council has begun the process of preparing for the legalization of marijuana.
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April 13, 2017
Senior care will improve, health minister vows - BCGEU
(March 2017 Article)
The B.C. government is heeding its seniors' care advisors and will hire 1,500 more people over the next four years to assist seniors in residential care, Health Minister Terry Lake said Thursday.
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April 13, 2017
Seniors care shouldn’t be a private-equity money-maker - BCGEU
(March 2017 Article)
Late last year, a large trans-national insurance company, Anbang, announced its intention to buy a majority interest in Retirement Concepts, a Canadian, for-profit, nursing-home chain. Retirement Concepts currently receives funding from a number of provincial governments to provide nursing-home care and is the highest-billing provider of assisted-living and residential car...
April 12, 2017
B.C. Care Providers Association calls for more funding in roadmap for seniors...
(February 2017 Article)
The B.C. Care Providers Association released its report on seniors Tuesday, calling for increased funding for their care and aimed at putting the issue on the agenda for the upcoming provincial election.
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April 12, 2017
Chronic Care Home Understaffing Hurting BC’s Seniors, Say Advocates - BCGEU
(February 2017 Article)
At a Kelowna seniors’ care home, residents ring the bell in their rooms for assistance — to go to the bathroom, to get out of bed, or deal with pain or confusion.
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April 12, 2017
Big unions are big donors to NDP, but amenable to banning their contributions...
(February 2017 Article)
Similar to big corporate donors to the B.C. Liberals, big unions are major contributors to the B.C. NDP.
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April 12, 2017
President Smith supports Sussanne Skidmore for Canadian Labour Congress VP - ...
www.sussanneskidmore.ca
I am pleased and proud to support Sussanne Skidmore's candidacy for the position of Vice-President, Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Sussanne is an established union leader, who began her social justice and labour activism more than a decade ago as a young worker. This makes her uniquely positioned to help evolve and grow the labour movement during increasingly complex...
April 12, 2017
Opinion: B.C. seniors' care crisis demands urgent action - BCGEU
(January 2017 Article)
This week, B.C.’s Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie reported that more than 90 per cent of the province’s residential care homes are not funded to meet government’s current minimum staffing guideline.
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April 11, 2017
5 on 2 – 5 on 3 Rotation at Well Being GSV - BCGEU
Your bargaining committee met with the Employer on Monday, April 10th and reached agreement on re-implementing the 5 on 2 off, 5 on 3 off rotation.
This agreement will see the rotation re-introduced by the beginning of June 2017. The details of the agreement are shown below:
The Employer will pay all employees entitled to overtime for Family Day 2017 on the May 3rd payroll.
A job fair will...
April 11, 2017
Expression of Interest for Vacant Bargaining Committee Positions at Well Bein...
Nominations for the bargaining committee were opened and closed in November and December of 2016. All three bargaining committee positions remain vacant.
The vacant bargaining committee positions are as follows:
Chairperson of the Bargaining Committee, one position
Bargaining Committee member, two positions
The Union is seeking expressions of interest for the above vacant positions. If...
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