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.
Further to our earlier announcement, a tentative agreement has been reached between the BCGEU and the JIBC.A copy of the ratification document is attached.Members are encouraged to attend an information session on MONDAY, MAY 25th starting at 2:00 pm. All members are permitted to be released from their duties from 2:00 - 4:00 that day, without loss of pay, to attend this meeting. Your Bargain...
Bargaining is currently on hold due to the Covid 19 pandemic. While we await our initial bargaining sessions to begin, we have to complete preparations and bargaining proposals. In addition we require a third bargaining committee member as Eduardo Aioli has stepped down. As per the collective agreement there can only be one person from a department on the bargaining committee.
Currently we have...
Ahead of the Thomson Reuters (TSX, NYSE: TRI) annual meeting of shareholders on June 3, 2020, the BCGEU has released an investor brief about its shareholder proposal, raising concerns about human rights impacts at the $8-billion software and media company. The Proposal asks the Thomson Reuters board to investigate and disclose whether it has adequately assessed and mitigated the reputational an...
In mid-April the federal government announced it was working with the provinces on a cost-shared, temporary "pandemic pay" program to top up the wages of select essential frontline workers-under the cost-share, the federal government is responsible for 75 per cent of the funding and the provincial governments are responsible for the remaining 25 per cent. Ever since the initial announcement, yo...
BURNABY, B.C. – Today the B.C. government released long-awaited details of a federal-provincial cost-shared pandemic pay program to temporarily top up the wages of some essential workers. The B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU) is calling on Victoria to expand the program to cover more essential frontline workers.
"The BCGEU pushed hard for this program to cover the broadest po...
Click here to read a letter from Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training, Melanie Mark to all post-secondary, skills and training community members.
UWU/MoveUP
Thank you to all members that were able to attend and participate in the Information meetings yesterday. We appreciated your questions and comments.
This Friday, you will receive an email with a link to vote online and your unique voting credentials. Please participate and vote. This is the only method for casting your ballot. If you know of another member that didn't get credentials to vote be...
This is an update on the status of negotiations for renewal of the collective agreement between the BCGEU and Legal Services Society.
Your bargaining committee met for five days of preparation in late April and early May. This included training in the process and pitfalls of bargaining, a thorough review of members' input from surveys, a clause-by-clause review of the entire collective agreemen...
Your BCGEU Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce we have reached a settlement agreement.Full details about the deal will be provided shortly, along with information about the ratification vote process.The monetary package is within the 2019 Sustainable Services Negotiating Mandate (PSEC), and includes full retroactivity and many other positive, substantive changes to the language. Your Ba...
Further to our earlier announcement, a tentative agreement has been reached between the BCGEU and Douglas College.
A copy of the Ratification Document is attached.
Members are encouraged to attend an information session on TUESDAY, MAY 12th starting at 2:40 pm. All members are permitted to be released from their duties from 2:30 – 4:30 that day, without loss of pay, to attend this meeting. Your...
Check out the latest issue of The Provincial
This issue has updates on our union's Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Strengthen All of Us roundtable, our COVID-19 information hub, the fight against massive rent increases and our union's new Affordable BC podcast. UWU/MoveUP
Restarting B.C. -- your rights and union news
Yesterday B.C. was full of cautious anticipation as Premier Horgan announced the steps we'll be taking to restart the province safely.Throughout the past two months, many BCGEU members have been on the front lines of the pandemic, limiting the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, countless others have been providing vital public services that keep ...
Right now, 79 per cent Canada's COVID-19 deaths are connected to long-term care facilities and make up the majority of deaths in B.C. Many seniors and elders have faced the end of their lives alone and their families have been left to pick up the pieces. We have known since the start of this pandemic that elderly people are most at risk, but we knew the senior's care sector was in crisis long b...
May 1st is International Workers Day. Historically, it is a commemoration of the Haymarket affair, a rally that took place in Chicago on May 4, 1886 in support of a general strike for an 8 hour workday that had happened in communities across the United States three days prior. At the time workdays of up to 16 hours were normal-as were six-day workweeks, child labour, and workplace deaths and in...
With social distancing measures expected to remain in place for some time, the parties have agreed to resume negotiations remotely. Bargaining is scheduled for May 1, 2020 and the parties are looking to schedule another day or two of bargaining for as soon as late next week.
As stated in our previous bulletin, we anticipate BCFMA will come prepared to propose classification-specific adjustments...
At the close of nominations on April 2, 2020, only one nomination had been submitted for two bargaining committee positions. Nominations are therefore being reopened for additional nominees. If there are no additional nominees, the bargaining committee will consist of a single member.Second Call for NominationsNominations are now open again for the bargaining committee to negotiate a first coll...
16% of Loblaw Independent Shareholders Vote for Greater Human Rights Oversight at Canada's Largest Food Retailer
Today, Loblaw's independent shareholders voted 16% in favour of a human rights shareholder proposal filed by B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU). The proposal asks Canada's largest food retailer to assign board-level responsibility for human rights.
Loblaw scores ...
Media Advisory
For Immediate Release
Union Shareholder Proposal Highlights Human Rights Risk at Canada’s Largest Food Retailer
On April 30, 2020, BCGEU will present a human rights shareholder proposal at Loblaw's annual general meeting. According to international reports, Loblaw is a human rights laggard behind global peers.
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Thank you for all that you are doing to keep your community and all of B.C. going through this extraordinary time. Your union is here for you. We are in communication with your employers and advocating for your rights and best interests as operations change due to the pandemic. We understand some of you are uncertain about the future of your employment and we want to assure you that we will ens...
Your BCGEU Bargaining Committee is pleased to announce we have reached a settlement agreement.
Full details about the deal will be provided shortly, along with information about the ratification vote process.
The monetary package is within the 2019 Sustainable Services Negotiating Mandate (PSEC), and includes full retroactivity and many other positive, substantive changes to the language. Your ...
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