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.
TYPE OF MEETING: LOCAL MEETING LOCAL:403 DATE: February 23, 2021 TIME:5:00 PM – 7:00 PMPLACE: Virtual via ZOOM RE: BCGEU 51st Triennial Constitutional Convention Nomination & Election of Delegates and Alternates Call for Resolutions for the 2021 BCGEU Constitutional ConventionThe BCGEU 51st Triennial Constitutional Convention will be taking place from Wednesday, June 9, 2021 to Saturday, Ju...
Please join me in congratulating Whitney Thompson and Julia Hudson who have been acclaimed as members of the bargaining committee and will represent you in negotiating a renewal of your collective agreement.
The bargaining committee will be meeting soon to begin preparing for the upcoming collective agreement renewal.
If you didn't receive this message directly, make sure your Union has your c...
The BCGEU is holding elections for the following position on the local 404 executive. Candidate statements are attached for those candidates who provided them.
The election will be conducted electronically.
The candidates nominated for the position of Local Chair, as they appear on the electronic ballot, in random order are:
Bonita Miller
Tim Little
We will conduct the voting using E-Voting. ...
Bargaining for a renewal of your Collective Agreement commenced Monday January 18, 2021. Starting this process was long overdue. Unfortunately, Covid-19 and a change in employers in 2020 created significant barriers to an earlier start.
You are being represented at the bargaining table by your bargaining committee as well as two representatives from Mountain Lakes Seniors in Nelson who are memb...
We are pleased to announce that a tentative Collective Agreement has been reached with your employer. We will be having a virtual Town hall meeting via Microsoft Teams on Friday, January 22, 2021 at 5:30 pm and at 7:30 pm to discuss the package and answer any questions that you may have. Following this meeting, a confidential voting window will be available from Friday, January 22, 2021 at 7:00...
The above noted position was open for nominations, ending December 28, 2020 and as we did not receive any interest in running for this position, the nominations remained open.
Further to Provincial Executive Policy D-8, and the recent receipt of two nominations for this position, the nomination period will now remain open until 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 20, 2021. If you are interested in r...
The bargaining committee met with your Employer on January 13 – 15 last week to open negotiations. After a long delay, both sides were happy to finally get to the table. The Union and Employer did a full exchange of non-monetary proposals to update your current collective agreement. The Union's proposals included items on health and safety, scheduling shifts and casual call-in, and vacancy post...
The nomination period has closed and we have received three nominations for the three positions on your bargaining committee.
Please join me in congratulating:
Saren VoiseyMonty QureshiKen Mui Chung Yu
They have been acclaimed as members of the bargaining committee and will represent you in negotiating a renewal of your collective agreement.
The bargaining committee will be meeting soon to be...
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we share a renewed sense of hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will soon be behind us. Two vaccines are currently in use in Canada with another vaccine soon to be approved by Health Canada however, we are not out of the woods yet. With the number of positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 significantly higher than we saw in the spring of 2020, ...
Your bargaining committee is pleased to announce that members have voted in favour of ratifying the new collective agreement.
The BCGEU thanks your committee for their hard work, long hours and commitment in achieving this collective agreement.
In solidarity,
Diane Bulatovich, Bargaining committee chairpersonDon Stroschein, Bargaining committee memberLily Idler, Bargaining committee memberC...
TYPE OF MEETING: LOCAL MEETINGLOCAL: 405DATE: February 3, 2021TIME: 7 – 8:30 P.M. PLACE: Virtual via ZOOM PlatformRE: BCGEU 51st Triennial Constitutional Convention – Nomination & Election of Delegates/ Alternates and Call for Resolutions for the 2021 BCGEU Constitutional Convention
Further to the bulletin sent on December 24, 2020, the BCGEU 51st Triennial Constitutional Convention will be...
Please join me in congratulating all of the candidates who stood for nomination for the vacant Local Chair/ Member at Large positions on the Local 401 Executive.
Local 401 Chair - Richard Ziemianski
Local 401 Member at Large – Bhajan Tathgar
Congratulations Richard and Bhajan and best of luck to both of you as you assume your important new roles.
In solidarity
Chad McQuarrieBCGEU Staff Represe...
The election for three (3) positions on the Bargaining Committee will be conducted electronically.
The candidates nominated for the Bargaining Committee, as they appear on the electronic ballot, in random order are:
Zenobia Wall (bio attached)
Shannon Smith
Petrina Baptist
Michelle Baraquel
We will conduct the voting using E-Voting. A link for you to vote will be sent via email to all Willow ...
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This issue has updates on our union's shareholder program, scholarship winners, member stories aboutworking during a pandemic, COVID & women: call for an intersectional feminist recovery and the crisis in B.C. seniors’care facilities.
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To prepare for bargaining to renew your collective agreement, your bargaining committee is looking for your feedback on what is important and what your priorities are.
Please fill in this electronic survey here, or the printed version we are mailing to your home address, and ensure it is returned to us by Friday, January 22, 2021. Please complete either the electronic survey or the paper survey...
BCGEU president Stephanie Smith, treasurer Paul Finch and the entire Provincial Executive would like to wish our 80,000 members and their families a happy and festive holiday season!
Please note that all physical and virtual BCGEU offices will be closed for the holidays.
BCGEU offices will be closed from 12:00pm on December 24, 2020 and until 8:30am on January 4, 2021, except for the Prince Geo...
It's hard to believe it's been over 9 months since COVID-19 arrived and turned our world upside down. Almost every day, the pandemic creates new challenges and questions for BCGEU members in Component 4, and our Component Executive wants to make sure you receive timely information and updates. To that end, we've put together a newsletter with the latest information to help you deal with workloa...
The right to refuse unsafe work is a legislative right and responsibility of all workers in B.C., and that is no different during the COVID-19 pandemic.Have you been assigned work that you feel is unsafe? According to law, the procedure to refuse unsafe work is as follows:
Immediately report to your supervisor that you have stopped work and the reasons why you believe the job or task is uns...
As we reported in Bargaining Update #10, your bargaining committee tabled a complete settlement package for the employer to consider on November 13, 2020. The parties were scheduled to meet again in bargaining on November 23 and 25; these dates were postponed by the employer as it was not ready to respond to our settlement package. The parties are now scheduled to resume negotiations on January...
During the pandemic, the B.C. government amended the Workers’ Compensation Act to allow workers to be compensated for lost wages when they contract COVID-19 on the job.
Members who have reason to believe they have contracted COVID-19 through work should report it to their employer as soon as possible and should file an application for compensation with WorkSafeBC, including as many details as p...
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