NEWS & UPDATES
July 08, 2016
Region 4 Women's Conference
Register now for the BCGEU Region 4 Women’s Conference, September 23-24, 2016 in Prince George. The Conference is open to all BCGEU women in Areas 06, 10, 11 & 12.
The Conference commences on Friday evening at 7:00 pm at the Ramada Hotel, 444 George St., Prince George with a panel session which will include a dynamic group of...
July 06, 2016
NDP MLA's Constituency Offices (Assistants) Steward List
MLA
Constituency
Steward
Area 01 Victoria (South Island)
Fleming, Rob
Victoria-Swan Lake
Robyn Spilker
Holman, Gary
Saanich North and the Islands
Horgan, John
Juan de Fuca
Andrew Barrett
Karagianis, Maurine
Esqu...
July 05, 2016
The BCGEU stands with Canada Post workers
Canada Post’s announcement that they will lock out Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) members as soon as Friday is an attack on collective bargaining, its workers and its customers.
Canada Post is refusing to do the work of collective bargaining with CUPW by demanding massive rollbacks on the union’s hard fought gains.
Those rollbacks include moving all new hires from a defined benefit...
July 04, 2016
NEC Native Education College bargaining update and meeting
On May 3, 2016, your Bargaining Committee began negotiations with Native Education College to renew your collective agreement. Bargaining continued on May 9, 12, 17, 24 and June 13.
We have been able to agree on a number of non-monetary proposals. However, we have made little progress on monetary issues. Specifically, the parties have been unable to agree on key issues, including:
wages
jo...
June 30, 2016
BCGEU presses Canadian Prime Minister on Mexican teacher repression
Since mid-May, Mexican teachers have launched a nation-wide protest against new government measures that seek to shut down teacher (normal) training schools, base continued employment on teachers’ results on standardized written exams, and eliminate the need for pedagogical training for new teachers. The government’s response has been a wave of violence that includes the abduction and arbitrary...
June 29, 2016
Local 705 By Election Results
Results of the 2016 Local 705 Executive By-Election are as follows:
Brenda Dunn was elected as Member-at-Large.
Congratulations and welcome to the Local Executive, Brenda!
UNIFOR467/MoveUP
June 29, 2016
Working Poverty in Metro Vancouver: the extent of the problem and realistic s...
Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a study on poverty in Vancouver. The report, Working Poverty in Metro Vancouver, presents sobering details on the increasing levels of poverty in the region. It also dispels an important myth about poverty: that getting a job will help lift a person out of poverty.
Poverty in B.C.’s largest city is increasingly a story of low pa...
June 24, 2016
Keep Your Cool!
The recent hot weather in our province generated several calls to the BCGEU Occupational Health and Safety department. Members want to know if the employer has the responsibility to protect workers from hot temperatures both indoors and out. The short answer is “YES!”
The Workers Compensation Act Section 115 mandates that employers must ensure the health and safety of all workers working for t...
June 22, 2016
York House School bargaining
The union will be holding a meeting for all union members in the Theatre at York House on Wednesday June 29 from 10:00am to 11:00am.
This meeting is to provide an update to bargaining unit members about the status of bargaining prior to the summer break.
We are also hopeful that the parties will reach a tentative agreement in the coming days and that this meeting will be used for a ratificati...
BCGEU Headquarters is on the unceded and shared traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skxwú7mesh (Squamish) & Səlí̓ lwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.