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COMPONENT 4 - HEALTH SERVICES

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.

 

NEWS & UPDATES

February 09, 2024

Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society - Preparations Complete and Ad...

 日本語版のダウンロードはこちらから。Download Japanese version here.Your bargaining committee met for two additional days, on January 29th and February 7th, to complete our preparations for negotiations with the Employer. At our most recent meeting, we finalized the proposals we will present at the bargaining table as we negotiate the first collective agreement for Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society....

February 06, 2024

All BCGEU Members at AgeCare - Bargaining Update - BC General Employees' Unio...

This is a message from your AgeCare Union Bargaining Committee. We wanted to keep you all in the loop on how things are going at the bargaining table with your employer. At this point, we have spent several days at the table with the employer exchanging proposals on both monetary and non-monetary items. We did not feel that we got very far with monetary responses from the employer during the fi...

February 06, 2024

Retirement Concepts - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

REMINDERRATIFICATION VOTE SCHEDULED   Ratification votes will be held at each worksite: Worksite Date Time CVSV Tuesday, February 13 Timber Room CVSV 7 am – 7 pm NSV Thursday, February 15 Staff Room 7 am – 4 pm WOV Wednesday, February 21 10 am – 8 pm AUB Friday, February 23 Media Room 2 pm – 4 pm RHSV Monday, February 26 Conference room 9 am – 5 p...

February 05, 2024

All Local 404 members - Nomination for local 404 Executive - BC General Emplo...

Nominations are now open for the following positions on the local executive: Recording Secretary Member at Large The term is three years. Information on the responsibilities and activities of each office is available from your area office. The deadline for nominations is: Monday, February 19th, 2024, 5:00 pm. Nominations submitted by fax, email or mail must be received by 5:00 pm Monday, ...

February 02, 2024

Amica at Somerset House - Call for Shop Steward Nominations - BC General Empl...

Nominations are now open for two (2)shop stewards at Amica at Somerset House, 540 Dallas Road, Victoria.  The deadline for submission of nominations (form attached) is: March 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. Nomination forms must be submitted by email to [email protected] Newly elected stewards are entitled to training at the Union's expense, including paid leave from work and ongoing support from ...

February 02, 2024

CareCorp Seniors Services (Cerwydden Care) - Call for Shop Steward Nomination...

Nominations are now open for two (2) shop stewards at CareCorp Seniors Services (Cerwydden Care), 3243 Cowichan Lake Road, Duncan. The deadline for submission of nominations (form attached) is: March 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. Nomination forms must be submitted by email to [email protected] Newly elected stewards are entitled to training at the Union's expense, including paid leave from work ...

January 29, 2024

Harbour Light ARC Bargaining Update #2 - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

  Friends, We have now completed our second week of bargaining. To recap, we met: o January 16-19, and o January 23-26. We are scheduled to resume March 19, continuing March 20 and 21. We are making progress and have agreed to some of the more minor proposals such as renewal of letters of agreement and, modernizing the pregnancy and parental leave provisions. But the key priorities identified ...

January 29, 2024

C4 Lifelabs members - LifeLabs bargaining survey – don’t miss your chance to ...

The next round of bargaining to renew our collective agreement is just around the corner. This is our chance to fight for better wages, working conditions, benefits, and more – but we need your help to decide which issues we should prioritize in this round of bargaining. Will you fill out a short bargaining survey to let us know what issues are most important to you? The survey closes on Februa...

January 29, 2024

All BCGEU Members at CareCorp Senior Services (Cerwydden and Piccadilly) - Pr...

Your bargaining committee for CareCorp Senior Services (Cerwydden and Piccadilly) is getting ready for negotiations with the Employer to renew your collective agreement. The committee and staff negotiator will meet on February 28th, February 29th, and March 5th for: training in the process and pitfalls of bargaining, reviewing the surveys where you indicated your bargaining priorities, reviewi...

January 26, 2024

Members covered under the Health Science Professionals Bargaining Association...

Our union would like to remind members covered by the HSPBA collective agreement that the application process for reimbursement of professional fees paid in 2023 is still open. For those who have not yet submitted a claim for fees paid in 2023, we will continue to process new applications until April 30, 2024. At that time, we will stop accepting new applications for professional fees and membe...

January 26, 2024

Local 401 members at Niagara Care Community Ltd. (Douglas Care Community) - E...

With your collective agreement about to expire, nominations are now open for the positions on the Union's bargaining committee. Three (3) committee member positions are open (Chair, plus two bargaining committee members). No previous experience in negotiations is required to be a member of the Bargaining Committee, but you must have a signed membership application card on file with the Union in...

January 24, 2024

All BCGEU Members at The Salvation Army - Harbour Light ARC - Harbour Light A...

这是一份重要通知。请考虑请人为您翻译。 ਇਹ ਇਕ ਜ਼ਰੂਰੀ ਸੂਚਨਾ ਹੈ। ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਕਿਸੇ ਤ ੋਂ ਇਸ ਦਾ ਅਨੁਵਾਦ ਕਰਵਾਉਣ ਬਾਰੇ ਵਿਚਾਰ ਕਰ । Ito ay isang mahalagang paunawa. Mangyaring pag-isipang ipa-translate ito para sa iyo   Friends, We are writing to provide an update on bargaining progress to date. We finished our first week of bargaining last Friday. We met with the Employer from Tuesday to Friday. Although we did not agree on a...

January 19, 2024

Bargaining for Retirement Concepts (Well Being Services Ltd.) BCGEU - BC Gene...

REMINDER INFORMATION MEETINGS SCHEDULED   Information drop in meetings will be held at each worksite: Worksite Date Time CVSV Tuesday, January 23 Casa Loma Theatre 7 am – 7 pm NSV Wednesday, January 24 Dover Room 9 am – 4 pm WOV Thursday, January 25 10 am – 8 pm AUB Monday, January 29 Media Room 2 pm – 4:30 pm RHSV Tuesday, January 30 Conference roo...

January 19, 2024

HCN-Revera - Fleetwood Villa and Whitecliff - Bargaining Assignment Change - ...

With the presumed dissolution of the common bargaining table for Fleetwood Villa and Whitecliff upon transfer of the sites to separate employers next month, staff conduct of negotiations will move from the Negotiations Department to the Fraser Valley Area Office. Anthony Davies, who you may already know as the assigned servicing representative, will assume conduct of bargaining. The outgoing st...

January 19, 2024

C4 - Lifelabs members - Important Update: Potential Sale Of LifeLabs And Our ...

We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to inform you about a significant development concerning LifeLabs which directly impacts you, your colleagues, and millions of people across the province and country. We just learned that LifeLabs is being considered for sale by its owner, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, or OMERS. While the details are still coming out, the...

January 18, 2024

Area 04 Education Opportunity - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

The Area 04 Cross Component Committee wishes you a very Happy and Prosperous 2024. We appreciate that we all have busy lives, but we are asking for your input by filling out this survey https://form.123formbuilder.com/6595892/area-04-cross-component. One of the purposes of the committee is to provide education and events for BCGEU members in our area. We have a number of events planned for this...

January 18, 2024

Fleetwood Villa and Whitecliff Pre-Bargaining Update #4: Changes - BC General...

This is an important pre-bargaining update from your bargaining committees for Fleetwood Villa and Whitecliff. December Delays Due to committee member unavailability, your bargaining committees had to postpone their preparatory meetings scheduled for December2023, and consequentially postponed the bargaining sessions that had been scheduled for later this month. Unfair Labour Practices Complain...

January 15, 2024

Members at LifeLabs Working in the Following Classifications: Mobile Lab Serv...

There will be Special Membership Meetings on Wednesday, January 17th to discuss issues and concerns specific to members working in positions as: Mobile Lab Services and Patient Service Centres. Here are the links and the details of those meetings: MOBILE LAB SERVICES6:00 pm – 7:00 pmPlease contact any member of your Bargaining Committee for the link to attend the meetings.   PATIENT SERVICE CE...