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COMPONENT 8 - COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES

Component 8 includes members who provide health services in our communities.

They work in home support, drug and alcohol treatment centres, adult day care, detox and emergency shelters, women's clinics, services to seniors, mental health group homes, regional health units and other community-based health services.

NEWS & UPDATES

July 18, 2025

Public service workers to take strike vote following impasse - BC General Emp...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2025  VICTORIA, B.C.  – Over 34,000 members of the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) working for B.C.’s public service will prepare to take a strike vote following a breakdown in negotiations for their next collective agreement. The union and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA) reached an impasse today over key issues, including competiti...

July 18, 2025

TODAY: BCGEU update on public service negotiations - BC General Employees' Un...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2025  VICTORIA, B.C.  – BCGEU president and public service bargaining committee chair Paul Finch will hold a press conference today to update media on recent developments in negotiations between the BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU) and the provincial government's Public Service Agency (PSA).  The BCGEU will also be releasing a new report, B.C.'s public service:...

July 17, 2025

All Area 04 Members -Cultural and Carnival Day August 9, 2025 - BC General Em...

To: All Area 04 BCGEU membersRe: Cultural & Carnival Day Event August 9, 2025   The Area 04 Cross Component invites you and your family for a cultural and carnival celebration taking place at our Fraser Valley Office!  Date: Saturday, August 9, 2025Place: 8555 198 A Street, Langley BC V2Y 0A9 (Fraser Valley Area Office)Time: 11 am – 3 pm The goal of this event is to bring together the rich...

July 17, 2025

ALL BCGEU Members in the Community Health Bargaining Association - Let’s Talk...

As we shared in a bulletin yesterday, your Community Bargaining Association (CBA) bargaining committee has canceled all remaining July dates with the employer – the Health Employers' Association of BC (HEABC). Why? Because we're simply not seeing meaningful progress at the table.  Before talks resume in September and October, we want to hear directly from you.  Your bargaining committee is host...

July 16, 2025

All Members in the Community Health Bargaining Association - July Bargaining ...

Your BCGEU delegates to the CBA bargaining committee (along with delegates of the six other constituent unions) have spent 16 days at the bargaining table with HEABC. Although we have had a full exchange of non-monetary proposals, we have made very little progress outside of administrative updates to the agreement.  Our goal is to make progress on the priorities you identified – this includes i...

July 11, 2025

July 12—Honouring the Brooklyn Tower Crane Collapse Workers and Opening of Me...

This July 12 marks four years since the devastating Brooklyn Tower crane collapse in downtown Kelowna-a tragedy that took the lives of five workers: Patrick Stemmer, Eric Stemmer, Cailen Vilness, Brad Zawislak, and Jared Zook.  Each of them went to work that morning and didn't come home. And each of them deserves to be remembered-not just for how they died, but for who they were and the communi...

June 28, 2025

Remembering the Stonewall Uprising - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

A Statement from BCGEU's Executive Vice-President and Chair of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Committee Tristen Wybou“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” ~ Marsha P. Johnson  When you think Americana, you probably don’t think of the Stonewall Inn – the gay bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich village that was raided by police on this day in 1969, famously catalyzing a multi-day resistance to stat...

June 27, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE - BCGEU Condemns Violent Incident at MLA Bowinn Ma’s Constituen...

MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    BCGEU Condemns Violent Incident at MLA Bowinn Ma's Constituency Office    Burnaby, B.C. June 27, 2025 –   We are deeply disturbed by the violent incident that unfolded today in front of the constituency office of MLA Bowinn Ma. We are grateful to hear that no one was injured and that the BCGEU members working in this and other constituency offices across...

June 19, 2025

Join us for Pride Events in Area 01 on June 22 and July 6! - BC General Emplo...

As we head into Pride, we are reminded that the first Pride was a collective uprising against injustice. It is in that spirit of solidarity and defiance that we mark this Pride season with our new theme:   Our Pride, Our Right, Our Future, Our Fight.  We hope you'll join us at one of the following Pride events in Area 01: Cowichan Pride on Sunday, June 22 Victoria Pride on Sunday, July 6 To ...

June 19, 2025

CBA Members - Further extension granted for recruitment and retention incenti...

Further extension granted for recruitment and retention incentives program PRRI extended to Sept 30; other programs extended temporarily In recognition of the importance of tackling shortages affecting health professions, the Ministry of Health has agreed to further extend initiatives launched last year to increase recruitment of health professionals in rural communities, and among professions ...

June 11, 2025

CBA Members - June bargaining update - BC General Employees' Union (BCGEU)

Your delegates to the Community Bargaining Association (CBA), along with delegates from the other six constituent unions of the CBA, met with the Health Employers Association of BC (HEABC) on June 3-4 and June 9-10, 2025, to continue the work of renewing our collective agreement. We’ve made some progress on non-monetary and administrative proposals, but there’s still a long way to go — ...