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.
Friends,Your bargaining committee met this past Saturday, April 2nd, to review the bargaining proposals that we hope will form the basis for a first collective agreement with Sikh Academy. Your employer, however, continues to resist the union's attempts to set bargaining dates despite that the Labour Relations Code (Code) stipulates that the Parties must meet within ten (10) days of notice. The...
BURNABY, B.C. (COAST SALISH TERRITORIES) – After more than a week without an offer from their employer, members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) working as librarians for the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) are escalating their job action. As of 7:00 am Wednesday, March 30th, all BCGEU members working as VIRL employees will be on strike. In person and virtual services at all ...
VICTORIA, B.C. – Negotiations between the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA) will be resuming after a 15 day break. The current agreement between the parties, which covers more than 32,000 union members, expires on March 31, 2022. "We always say 'where there's talk, there's hope" so getting invited back to the table is definitely posi...
Your BCGEU bargaining committee and NEC met again on March 22nd. (The bargaining session the parties had scheduled for February 22, 2022 unfortunately had to be cancelled due to illness.) We are pleased to report early progress. The parties agreed on 34 proposals this week-just over half were housekeeping proposals, and the remainder mostly non-monetary language proposals. Our next bargaining s...
Your BCGEU Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce the results of the ratification vote counted last night, with 86% voting in favour of adopting the tentative collective agreement! Your Bargaining Committee would like to thank you for your patience and ongoing support throughout this long process. Please feel free to contact one of us with any questions. In solidarity, Laird Story, Bargain...
Friends,
The bargaining committee met again on March 18, 2022, to determine next steps.
Thus far, your employer has resisted setting bargaining dates. It has also ignored the union's requests for information that it is legally required to produce. Although we will continue in our attempts to engage our employer, we are also reviewing the options available to us should the employer continue it...
This morning, BCGEU President and Chair of the BCGEU Public Service Bargaining Committee spoke with CKNW's Michael Smyth about public service bargaining. "What we're looking for and what we think is very reasonable are cost of living adjustments… Our members over the last two years have learned their worth, they know their value, they know their contributions to our province, and they know that...
BCGEU Statement on CFNU re-admitting BCNU
Recently, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) announced their plan to re-admit the BC Nurses Union (BCNU) into their union, more than a decade after they left the CFNU because of raiding activities in our province.
BCNU raided our union, and other health care unions in BC, for several years in an attempt to build their own power at the expen...
BURNABY, B.C. (COAST SALISH TERRITORIES) – Members of the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) working as librarians for the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) are escalating their job action starting Friday, March 18th in an ongoing effort to get the VIRL Board to issue a new wage mandate. “We’ve said from the beginning—librarians don’t want to be on picket lines in front of their librari...
On Tuesday, March 22 and March 23, drop-in meetings will be held to review the tentative agreement. Departments will allow for small groups to attend throughout the day. A Comprehensive Ratification document will be available for your review.
We look forward to meeting you and explaining the various aspects of the tentative agreement. You will be able to vote after the meeting. Your bargaining ...
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