NEWS & UPDATES
May 13, 2021
Elim Christian Care Society - Bargaining Committee & Next Steps - BCGEU
Your Union received three nomination by the deadline and so your committee has been elected by acclamation. Your committee members in alphabetical order are:
Debra Bickerstaffe
Amrita Mahal
Arlyn Mariano
The committee will be meeting in the coming weeks to select a committee chairperson, receive training, and to decide how best to engage the membership to determine your priorities.
Please be ...
May 13, 2021
SECRETARY LEVEL 3 - Organizing (Temporary) - BCGEU
BCGEU – HEADQUARTERS OFFICE
INTERNAL POSTING
May 13, 2021
POSITION: SECRETARY – ORGANIZING (Temporary)
GRADE: LEVEL 3 - MoveUP AGREEMENT
A secretary is required to perform secretarial and word processing functions for staff representatives in the Organizing department. Term of assignment is up to 5 months or return of incumbent.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Duties will include: proces...
May 12, 2021
Cascades Care Community - Ratification Meeting Information - BCGEU
The ratification meeting for your new collective agreement will be Tuesday, May 18. The meeting will be online due to public health restrictions. This will be your chance to ask questions about the changes to the collective agreement:
Date: Tuesday, May 18
Time: Drop in between 1:30pm and 3:30pm
Ratification highlights will be explained at 1:30 and 2:30, and members can ask questions at any tim...
May 10, 2021
All BCGEU Members at Royale Peninsula Retirement Residence - Notice of Ratifi...
This is a reminder that the ratification meeting for your collective agreement will be this Thursday. This will be the only meeting opportunity to ask questions about your collective agreement:
Date: Thursday, May 13
Time: Drop in between 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Ratification highlights will be explained at 2:30 and 3:30, and members can ask questions at any time.
Ho...
May 10, 2021
All Local 403 BCGEU Members at RainCity Housing & Support Society - Health Sc...
Nominations are now open for 2 (two) steward position at your worksite and will close on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. 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...
May 07, 2021
Lifelabs - Bargaining Bulletin #4 - Update - BCGEU
Following six days of negotiations with the employer, on April 27, 28 & 29 and May 3, 4 & 5, your Bargaining Committee is pleased to report progress in a number of areas. We have agreed on some language changes with our non-monetary proposals and conducted a lot of good discussion and dialogue with the employer.
Your Committee would like to thank those of you working at the PSCs that su...
May 07, 2021
Salvation Army Harbour Light - Update on bargaining BCGEU - BCGEU
Your bargaining committee met between April 26 and 28 to undergo bargaining training and develop proposals for the upcoming round of bargaining. The committee also elected as bargaining chair Monty Qureshi. Congratulations Monty!
The surveys you filled out will inform our priorities for bargaining. Thank you to everyone who filled out a survey. Please keep talking to your bargaining committee t...
May 06, 2021
Royale Peninsula Retirement Residence - Notice of Ratification Meeting and Vo...
Your bargaining committee is pleased to present the highlights of the tentative agreement reached with your Employer to renew your collective agreement that includes a signing bonus, an increase to the night shift premium, clarification of regular hours of work, and Employer paid sick notes.
This was a very difficult round of bargaining, especially since negotiations were conducted online, inst...
May 05, 2021
Your Worksite Stewards at RainCity Housing & Support Society - BCGEU
***PLEASE POST ON UNION BOARD***
This notice is to advise all BCGEU members at RainCity Housing & Support Society that the following people are the current shop stewards for your worksite:
Beshele Caron
Urs Dring
Heather Guthrie
Hanzl
Sean Harper
Odette Henwood
Courtney Kelly
Kimberly Luscombe
Shannon Nickel
Kevin Ramsay
Justin Sutherland
Meagan Taylor
Coral Watson
Rand...
May 05, 2021
COVID Update - BCGEU
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, our understanding of the virus is rapidly evolving. It is now widely recognized that airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 can occur under certain conditions. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) recently updated its guidance to acknowledge that SARS-CoV- 2 is spread through aerosols (smaller droplets that can hang in the air for periods of time).1 Further...
May 05, 2021
Special Meeting for BCGEU Couriers - BCGEU
Your Bargaining Committee has scheduled a Special Meeting for all LifeLabs Couriers as follows:
Date: Thursday, May 6th, 2021Time: 7:00 pm
Microsoft Teams meetin:
Check your email or speak with a member of your Bargaining Committee for meeting participation details.
Please check with your co-workers to make sure they received this message. If you or your co-worker did not receive the invite, pl...
May 04, 2021
Pre-Bargaining Bulletin #3: Nearly Prepared - Vantage Living Inc - BCGEU
Update
Your bargaining committee is nearly prepared for negotiations with the employer to renew the collective agreement. In its most recent meetings, your committee:
completed its careful, clause by clause review of the entire collective agreement;
reviewed all survey feedback on your bargaining priorities, including your responses to the mini-survey on extended health and welfare benefits;
...
May 04, 2021
All Local 405 Members - Local 405 Chairperson - BCGEU
Please be advised that: Clare Audet has retired and David Ho is new Local 405 Chairperson effective May 1, 2021.Congratulations David! Email address for David Ho is [email protected] In solidarity Mahen RamdharryVice President, Component 4Download PDF of notice here
UWU/MoveUP
May 03, 2021
All BCGEU Members at LifeLabs working in Courier positions - Special Meeting ...
Your Bargaining Committee has scheduled a Special Meeting for all LifeLabs Couriers:
Date: Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Remotely on Microsoft Teams
If you have a current home email address on file with the Union, you will receive an email invite with a link to join the meeting. There will also be a call-in number if you prefer to j...
May 03, 2021
Remembering Component 1 member Bikramdeep Randhawa
On behalf of 80,000+ members across the province, the BCGEU offers our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and loved ones of Local 104 member Bikramdeep Randhawa as they grieve his sudden and senseless death on Saturday, May 1st.
While the loss of any member under any circumstance is a tragedy, Bikramdeep's youth and the violent, and public nature of his death make this loss harder to b...
April 30, 2021
How the BC Budget affects you – BCGEU analysis
BC Budget Analysis 2021/22Moving in the right direction, but at the wrong speed. On April 20, the BC NDP delivered its first budget and fiscal plan since winning a new majority mandate in the October 2020 general election. More importantly, this was the government's first official budget since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Budget 2021 includes significant funds for em...
April 30, 2021
All BCGEU Members at Sun Village - Notice of Ratification Meeting and Vote fo...
We are pleased to present a tentative agreement that will include wage lifts on the date of ratification, Employer matched RRSPs, increase to the night-shift premium, and a lump sum signing bonus.
We encourage you to vote “yes” and accept this new collective agreement!
Ratification Document
The ratification can be found here. When you vote, you will be voting to accept all of the changes in th...
April 28, 2021
You get to keep your union at CVSV - BCGEU
You get to keep your union at CVSVThe group of Comox Valley Seniors Village (CVSV) employees who filed to decertify you from the BCGEU withdrew their application last week.This is good news because it means that you get to keep your union and the rights you have in your collective agreement. Now we can focus squarely on the work we need to do to make changes at your workplace and prepare for yo...
April 23, 2021
BCGEU Members at Cascades Care Community - Tentative Agreement Reached - BCGEU
Your bargaining committee is pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement with your Employer for a renewal to your collective agreement.This round of bargaining was difficult, especially since bargaining took place online instead of in person, but your committee fought hard for the priorities you identified in the surveys. We’re looking forward to outlining the changes to the ...
April 23, 2021
Vantage Living Inc. - Mini-Survey on Extended Health and Welfare Benefits - B...
As part of its preparations, your bargaining committee is looking for your feedback on your priorities for extended health and welfare benefits.
Information about your current extended health and welfare benefits can be found in your collective agreement and your benefit plan booklet.
Examples of different types of extended health and welfare benefits include the following, though this is not ...
April 22, 2021
All BCGEU Members at LifeLabs - Bargaining Bulletin #3 – Negotiations Get Und...
On April 14th – 16th, your Bargaining Committee met with the employer for the first time to commence negotiations for a renewal agreement. We tabled a hefty package, including proposals on almost every article and centred on all the input we've received from the surveys, your individual suggestions and local issues we've been dealing with since the last time we were at the table. In our bargai...
April 22, 2021
The Provincial Spring 2021 - BCGEU
Check out the latest issue of The Provincial
This issue has convention candidate statements, updates on the Fight for Essential Pay for BC Liquor Distribution Branch workers, COVID and Women a call for a just recovery, and a big win for the members in the Community Living Sector.
UWU/MoveUP
April 22, 2021
Chartwell’s pandemic profiteering off seniors’ care demonstrates need to move...
The B.C. Government & Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) is appalled to learn that Chartwell Retirement Residences, where the union represents 125 members at two of its long-term care facilities in B.C., provided executive bonuses for "100% customer satisfaction during the pandemic" while at the same time rejecting a proposal to provide frontline workers a living wage despite their tireless e...
April 20, 2021
BCGEU applauds investments in sectors like childcare and seniors care; urges ...
Victoria, B.C. – The BCGEU is applauding Budget 2021's support for the critical public services needed to get B.C. through the pandemic. But the union representing tens of thousands of members direct government and throughout the province's broader public sector is highlighting that more needs to be done to support workers as we move towards recovery.
"Our members' top priority for Budget 2021 ...
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