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COMPONENT 7 - EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

Component 7 includes members who work in colleges and institutes as instructors and support staff, in private environmental testing laboratories, legal services, and other related fields.

Employers include community colleges, the B.C. Institute of Technology, the Justice Institute of B.C., private labs, BC NDP Caucus and Constituency Offices, legal services to the public and many more.

NEWS & UPDATES

December 09, 2022

BC Family Maintenance Agency - Bargaining Bulletin #5: Negotiations Continue ...

Your BCGEU bargaining committee and employer met again on December 7th and 8th in Burnaby to continue discussions on monetary issues, including wages. The Employer tabled its monetary proposals this week and provided initial information around costing and government mandates. The parties are looking at dates in the new year to resume negotiations and explore various options open to us that will...

December 02, 2022

Tentative agreement reached with UBC-O - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

A tentative agreement has been reached with our employer, UBC-Okanagan, and we will soon vote on whether to ratify it. Your bargaining committee worked hard to put as much money as possible in members' pockets. Details are below.  How did we get here? Our previous collective agreement expired June 30, 2022. Bargaining with the employer took place October 19-21, November 7-9, and November 28-29,...

December 01, 2022

EF International Language School - Bargaining Update - BC General Employees' ...

Your Bargaining Committee will be meeting with BCGEU Staff Representatives on December 15, 2022, to work on your bargaining proposals. It is important for your Bargaining Committee and your Union to have as much input from members in order to address your needs at the bargaining table. If you have not already completed the bargaining survey, please do so now (see attached). Please submit your b...

November 30, 2022

Local bargaining underway for post-secondary support - BC General Employees' ...

Bargaining for local collective agreements is now underway for post-secondary support staff, details are below.An important note: If you haven't already done so, please provide our union with your personal contact information in the BCGEU Member Portal.Negotiation statusWhen we last wrote to you on September 23, we had reached a tentative common collective agreement – the first ever – with the ...

November 29, 2022

BC Family Maintenance Agency - Negotiations continue - BC General Employees' ...

Your BCGEU bargaining committee and employer met again on November 28th and 29th in Burnaby and signed off several of the remaining non-monetary proposals. The parties have begun initial discussions around monetary issues. The union had hoped that the employer would table its monetary proposals this week, but it was not able to do so.The parties will resume negotiations on December 7th and 8th ...

November 18, 2022

BC Family Maintenance Agency - bargaining bulletin #3: negotiations continue...

Your BCGEU bargaining committee and employer met again on October 25th and made progress on a several more non-monetary proposals. The bargaining session scheduled for October 26th had to be cancelled due to a case of COVID-19 on one of the committees.Bargaining resumed this week on November 15th and the parties agreed on one additional non-monetary proposal. The parties are very close to reach...

November 18, 2022

Local bargaining underway for post-secondary instructors - BC General Employe...

Bargaining for local collective agreements is now underway for post-secondary instructors. Please read this bulletin for details and, if you haven't already, provide our union with your personal contact information in the BCGEU Member Portal.Negotiation statusWhen we last wrote to you on October 26, we had reached a tentative common collective agreement with the Post-Secondary Employers' Associ...

November 16, 2022

Members at EF International Language School Ltd - Bargaining Committee Electi...

The election of your bargaining has been completed and your newly elected Bargaining Committee members are:Alex Bowell                          Bargaining Chair Niamh Feeha-Fitzgerald     Bargaining Committee Member The next step is for the Bargaining Committee to meet with your Staff Representative to develop proposals to take forward to the bargaining table. Once the committee has met and dev...